Cuñat, Vicente 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7504-2801 and Guadalupe, Maria
(2005)
How does product market competition shape incentive contracts?
Journal of the European Economic Association, 3 (5).
pp. 1058-1082.
ISSN 1542-4774
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 nontraded 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: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1542-4766&... |
| Additional Information: | © 2005 Wiley-Blackwell |
| Divisions: | Finance Management Financial Markets Group |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HG Finance |
| JEL classification: | G - Financial Economics > G3 - Corporate Finance and Governance > G34 - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J33 - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods L - Industrial Organization > L2 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior > L20 - General |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Nov 2011 14:17 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Nov 2024 00:07 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/39413 |
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