The Pricing of Relative Performance Based Incentives for Executive Compensation
The Pricing of Relative Performance Based Incentives for Executive Compensation
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DOI:
10.1111/1468-5957.00410
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发表时间:
2001-11
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
António Câmara
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作者:
António Câmara
Since 1995, more than 50 percent of the firms in the "FTSE"-100 have granted rewards to their senior executives, the payoffs of which are contingent on the firm's stock return relative to a bench mark return over a given period (hereafter, relative performance incentives). This paper investigates and derives closed-form solutions for a class of relative performance incentives that have a positive payoff if, in addition to the traditional contingencies, the firm's stock return is higher than the market return times a threshold. Results suggest that UK firms, in practice, when relative performance incentives (RPI's) substitute absolute performance incentives (API's) tend to (i) decrease the cost of their compensation packages; (ii) undertake more risky capital-investment projects; and (iii) avoid providing so high-powered incentives to increase shareholder wealth. Copyright Blackwell Publishers Ltd 2001.