How does product market competition shape incentive contracts?

Cuñat, Vicente ORCID: 0000-0001-7504-2801 and Guadalupe, Maria (2005) How does product market competition shape incentive contracts? CEPDP (687). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance, London, UK. ISBN 0753018675

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Abstract

This paper studies the effect of product market competition on the explicit compensation packages that firms offer to their CEOs, executives and workers. We use a large sample of both traded and non-traded UK firms and exploit a quasi-natural experiment associated to an increase in competition. The sudden appreciation of the pound in 1996 implied different changes in competition for sectors with different degrees of openness. Our difference in differences estimates show that a higher level of product market competition increases the performance pay sensitivity of compensation schemes, in particular for executives.

Item Type:	Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Official URL:	http://cep.lse.ac.uk
Additional Information:	© 2005 the authors
Divisions:	Centre for Economic Performance
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
JEL classification:	J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J33 - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods M - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting > M1 - Business Administration > M12 - Personnel Management J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J4 - Particular Labor Markets > J49 - Other J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J32 - Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Private Pensions J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J4 - Particular Labor Markets > J41 - Contracts: Specific Human Capital, Matching Models, Efficiency Wage Models, and Internal Labor Markets
Date Deposited:	24 Jul 2008 08:35
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 18:41
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/19894

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