A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, whichprovides a useful framework for … thinking about pay for performance systems. I use thelessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for … performance inpractice.... …

.<P> Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to be … used class of Residual Income based performance measures —such as Economic Value Added (EVA)— is distorted, leading to … and the self-selection of firms using EVA. Our findings indicate that EVA is a distorted performance measure that elicits …

Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts … noise and distortion of a performance measure can be measured. Courty and Marschke (2007) have recently developed an elegant … empirical test to detect distortion, based on the degradation of a performance measure subsequent to increasing its weight in …

Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts … noise and distortion of a performance measure can be measured. Courty and Marschke (2007) have recently developed an elegant … empirical test to detect distortion, based on the degradation of a performance measure subsequent to increasing its weight in …

the performance measure and its similarity (congruity, congruence) to the benefit of the manager's employer. A necessary …