Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5061631 | Economics Letters | 2008 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
This paper examines the trade-off shareholders face between providing managers with incentives to exert beneficial effort and to engage in costly fraudulent activity. We provide a solution to the optimal compensation problem, given that shareholders can either grant (restricted) stock or stock options and given fixed average compensation costs.
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Authors
Rainer Andergassen,