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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractWe consider a simple variant of the standard real business cycle model in which shareholders hire a self-interested executive to manage the fi rm on their behalf. A generic family of compensation contracts similar to those employed in practice is studied. When compensation is convex in the fi rm's own dividend (or share price), a given increase in the fi rm's output generated by an additional unit of physical investment results in a more than proportional increase in the manager's income. Incentive contracts of suffi cient yet modest convexity are shown to result in an indeterminate general equilibrium, one in which business cycles are driven by self-fulfi lling fl uctuations in the manager's expectations that are unrelated to the economy's fundamentals. Arbitrarily large fl uctuations in macroeconomic variables may result. We also provide a theoretical justifi cation for the proposed family of contracts by demonstrating that they yield fi rst-best outcomes for specifi c parameter choices.
Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractWe consider a simple variant of the standard real business cycle model in which shareholders hire a self-interested executive to manage the fi rm on their behalf. A generic family of compensation contracts similar to those employed in practice is studied. When compensation is convex in the fi rm's own dividend (or share price), a given increase in the fi rm's output generated by an additional unit of physical investment results in a more than proportional increase in the manager's income. Incentive contracts of suffi cient yet modest convexity are shown to result in an indeterminate general equilibrium, one in which business cycles are driven by self-fulfi lling fl uctuations in the manager's expectations that are unrelated to the economy's fundamentals. Arbitrarily large fl uctuations in macroeconomic variables may result. We also provide a theoretical justifi cation for the proposed family of contracts by demonstrating that they yield fi rst-best outcomes for specifi c parameter choices.
We consider a simple variant of the standard real business cycle model in which shareholders hire a self-interested executive to manage the firm on their behalf. Delegation gives rise to a generic conflict of interest mediated by a convex (option-like) compensation contract which is able to align the interests of managers and their shareholders. With such a compensation contract, a given increase in the firm's output generated by an additional unit of physical investment results in a more than proportional increase in the manager's income. We find that incentive contracts of this form can easily result in an indeterminate general equilibrium, with business cycles driven by self-fulfilling fluctuations in the manager's expectations. These expectations are unrelated to fundamentals. Arbitrarily large fluctuations in macroeconomic variables may possibly result.
Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractWe consider a simple variant of the standard real business cycle model in which shareholders hire a self-interested executive to manage the fi rm on their behalf. A generic family of compensation contracts similar to those employed in practice is studied. When compensation is convex in the fi rm's own dividend (or share price), a given increase in the fi rm's output generated by an additional unit of physical investment results in a more than proportional increase in the manager's income. Incentive contracts of suffi cient yet modest convexity are shown to result in an indeterminate general equilibrium, one in which business cycles are driven by self-fulfi lling fl uctuations in the manager's expectations that are unrelated to the economy's fundamentals. Arbitrarily large fl uctuations in macroeconomic variables may result. We also provide a theoretical justifi cation for the proposed family of contracts by demonstrating that they yield fi rst-best outcomes for specifi c parameter choices.
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