Date of Original Version
12-2009
Type
Article
Published In
American Economic Review, 99(5): 1740–69.
Abstract or Table of Contents
We estimate a principal-agent model of moral hazard with longitudinal data on …firms and managerial compensation over two disjoint periods spanning 60 years to investigate increased value and variability in managerial compensation. We f…ind exogenous growth in …firm size largely explains these secular trends in compensation. In our framework, exogenous …firm size works through two channels: Conflicts of interest between shareholders and managers are magnified… in large …firms, so optimal compensation plans are now more closely linked to insider wealth. Also, the market for managers has become more differentiated, increasing the premium paid to managers of large versus small …firms.
Comments
Copyright © 2009 by the American Economic Association. Technical Appendix: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ggayle/technical_appendixmoral1.pdf