Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93761 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 101
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
A main prediction of agency theory is the well known risk-incentive trade-off. Incentive contracts should be found in environments with little uncertainty and for agents with low degrees of risk aversion. There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the first trade-off. Due to lack of data, there has so far been hardly any empirical evidence about the second. Making use of a unique representative data set, we find clear evidence that risk aversion has a highly significant and substantial negative impact on the probability that an employee's pay is performance contingent.
Subjects: 
Agency theory
GSOEP
Incentives
Pay for performance
Performance appraisal
Risk
Risk aversion
JEL: 
J33
M52
D80
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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