Sales Maximization and Specific Human Capital

Zabojnik, Jan

Abstract

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Sales Maximization and Specific Human Capital

Jan Zabojnik

Queen's University - Department of Economics

Rand Journal of Economics, Vol. 29, No. 4, Winter 1998

Abstract:
Profit-maximizing owners of firms may find it optimal to provide managers with incentives to maximize sales in addition to profits. This influences the outcome of the bargaining game between workers and managers over workers' wages and helps to solve the problem of underinvestment by workers in specific human capital. I investigate optimal managerial contracts from this point of view and show that the optimal contract is a function of sales in addition to profits.

Accepted Paper Series

Date posted: December 10, 1998

Suggested Citation

Zabojnik, Jan, Sales Maximization and Specific Human Capital. Rand Journal of Economics, Vol. 29, No. 4, Winter 1998. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=109889

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