Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/148880 
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Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2016-044
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, Berlin
Abstract: 
We examine optimal managerial compensation and turnover policy in a principal-agent model in which the firm output is serially correlated over time. The model captures a learning-by-doing feature: higher effort by the manager increases the quality of the match between the firm and the manager in the future. The optimal incentive scheme entails an inefficiently high turnover rate in the early stages of the employment relationship. The optimal turnover probability depends on the past performance and the likelihood of turnover decreases gradually with superior performance. With good enough past performance, the turnover policy reaches efficiency; the manager is never retained if it is inefficient to do so. The manager's compensation depends on the firm value and the optimal performance-compensation relation increases with past performance.
Subjects: 
Dynamic moral hazard
managerial turnover
pay for performance
JEL: 
C73
D82
D86
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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