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A Primer on Tractable Incentive ContractsAlex EdmansUniversity of Pennsylvania - Finance Department; London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Xavier GabaixNew York University - Stern School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) June 23, 2011 Abstract: This note is a brief, non-technical summary of a framework that delivers tractable incentive contracts in broad settings that require few restrictions on the utility function, cost function and noise distribution, and are achievable in discrete time. The framework was developed in Edmans and Gabaix (2011). The note also contains two specific applications to (i) a market equilibrium model of CEO assignment and compensation under heterogenous moral hazard and risk aversion, and (ii) a fully dynamic model of CEO compensation where the manager consumes in every period, may temporarily inflate earnings, and may undo the contract by privately saving.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 8 Keywords: Contract theory, executive compensation, incentives, principal-agent problem, closed forms, multiperiod contracts JEL Classification: D2, D3, G34, J3 working papers seriesDate posted: June 24, 2011 ; Last revised: December 7, 2011Suggested CitationContact Information
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