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- Title
Shaping Incentives through Measurement and Contracts.
- Authors
Bonham, Jonathan D.
- Abstract
I study productive activity, measurement, and compensation in a principal agent model that relaxes common restrictions on the action set of the agent, the distribution of performance measures, and the shape of the wage schedule. The solution to this relaxed problem unifies insights from extant theory and shares features with well-known empirical phenomena. In particular, the optimal outcome distribution has a kink, optimal measurement is conservative, and optimal wages ensure congruent incentives and resemble accounting-based bonus plans featuring a floor, hurdle bonus, incentive zone, and ceiling, with thresholds that may reference other performance measures. Beyond these specific insights, the paper provides a flexible framework for studying how incentives are shaped through measurement and contracts.
- Subjects
JOB performance; LABOR incentives; MEASUREMENT; WAGES; EMPLOYEE bonuses; MORAL hazard; AGENCY theory
- Publication
Accounting Review, 2024, Vol 99, Issue 4, p57
- ISSN
0001-4826
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2308/TAR-2019-0248