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The Role of Risk in Executive Compensation

Journal of Management, 1997
The present study was designed to investigate the role of risk in executive compensation. We argue that compensation arrangements may be used to mitigate agency problems by encouraging risk taking behavior and providing incentives for optimizing long-term performance.
Samuel R. Gray, Albert A. Cannella
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Risk compensation in wages - a replication

Empirical Economics, 2003
We use data from Germany, The Netherlands, Portugal and Spain to test for the effect of earnings variation on individual earnings. We replicate estimates for the USA and find that the variance of earnings in an occupation affects individual wages positively while the skewness of earnings has a negative effect.
Hartog, J., Plug, E., Diaz Serrano, L., Vieira, J.   +3 more
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A note on risk adjustment and fair compensation

Health Economics, 2000
This note comments on the application of results from the theory of fair compensation to risk adjustment. It argues that the main flaw of such application lies in the consideration of health plans merely as administrative social agents, through which money flows from a central fund to providers of medical care, ignoring their economic behaviour ...
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Compensation Structure and Systemic Risk

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
Testimony of Kevin J. Murphy before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, Hearing on Compensation Structure and Systemic Risk, June 11, 2009.
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Risk aversion, prudence, and compensation

The European Journal of Finance, 2014
In a standard principal-agent setting, we use a comparative approach to study the incentives provided by different types of compensation contracts, and their valuation by managers with utility function u who are risk averse (u″ 0). We show that concave contracts tend to provide more incentives to risk averse managers, while convex contracts tend to be ...
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Disinhibition and Risk Compensation

Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 2008
Matthew, Hogben, Nicole, Liddon
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Managing Employee Compensation Risk

Review of Accounting Studies, 2000
We analyze a principal-agent model in which the principal (e.g., shareholders) and the agent (e.g., an employee) can personally trade securities tied to the outcome of an uncontrollable event affecting output. The model is employed to address two questions.
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Risk Compensation

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 2004
Brent, Hagel, Willem, Meeuwisse
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Risk, compensation, challenges

BMJ, 2009
T. C Erren, P. Falaturi, P. Morfeld, R. J Reiter   +3 more
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How Temporal Focus Shapes the Influence of Executive Compensation on Risk Taking

Academy of Management Journal, 2021
Wei Shi, Mark Desjardine
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