Incentivizing irreversible investment

Livdan, Dmitry and Nezlobin, Alexander (2022) Incentivizing irreversible investment. Accounting Review, 97 (2). 349 - 371. ISSN 0001-4826

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Existing dynamic investment models that show that a manager can be incentivized to implement the optimal investment policy rely on the assumption that the firm is operating in an ever-expanding product market. This paper presents an analytically tractable, discrete-time, neoclassical model with irreversible investment and the possibility of unfavorable demand events. We show that even when the principal is uninformed about changes in demand for the firm’s output, there exists a performance measurement system that leads to goal congruent investment incentives for the manager. If the principal can observe the unfavorable demand events, then goal congruence can be achieved using very simple accrual accounting rules, such as straight-line depreciation.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://meridian.allenpress.com/accounting-review
Additional Information:	© 2021 American Accounting Association
Divisions:	Accounting
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5601 Accounting
JEL classification:	G - Financial Economics > G3 - Corporate Finance and Governance > G31 - Capital Budgeting; Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies M - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting > M4 - Accounting and Auditing > M41 - Accounting M - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting > M5 - Personnel Economics > M52 - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects (stock options, fringe benefits, incentives, family support programs, seniority issues)
Date Deposited:	21 May 2021 16:03
Last Modified:	02 Nov 2024 03:15
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/110531

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