Post by Sapphire Capital on Aug 26, 2008 20:55:51 GMT 4
Executive Compensation and Stock Options: An Inconvenient Truth
Jean-Pierre Danthine
University of Lausanne - Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Swiss Finance Institute
John B. Donaldson
Columbia Business School
June 14, 2008
Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 08-13
Abstract:
We reexamine the issue of executive compensation within a general equilibrium production context. Intertemporal optimality places strong restrictions on the form of a representative manager's compensation contract, restrictions that appear to be incompatible with the fact that the bulk of many high-proffile managers' compensation is in the form of various options and option-like rewards. We therefore measure the extent to which a convex contract alone can induce the manager to adopt near-optimal investment and hiring decisions. To ask this question is essentially to ask if such contracts can effectively align the stochastic discount factor of the manager with that of the shareholder-workers. We detail exact circumstances under which this alignment is possible and when it is not.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID1155006_code517200.pdf?abstractid=1155006&mirid=3
Jean-Pierre Danthine
University of Lausanne - Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Swiss Finance Institute
John B. Donaldson
Columbia Business School
June 14, 2008
Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 08-13
Abstract:
We reexamine the issue of executive compensation within a general equilibrium production context. Intertemporal optimality places strong restrictions on the form of a representative manager's compensation contract, restrictions that appear to be incompatible with the fact that the bulk of many high-proffile managers' compensation is in the form of various options and option-like rewards. We therefore measure the extent to which a convex contract alone can induce the manager to adopt near-optimal investment and hiring decisions. To ask this question is essentially to ask if such contracts can effectively align the stochastic discount factor of the manager with that of the shareholder-workers. We detail exact circumstances under which this alignment is possible and when it is not.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID1155006_code517200.pdf?abstractid=1155006&mirid=3