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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2007
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2007,045
Verlag: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, Berlin
Zusammenfassung: 
We analyze the optimal combination of promotion tournaments and individual performance pay in an employment relationship. An agent's effort is non-observable and he has private information about his suitability for promotion. We find that the principal does not provide individual incentives if it is sufficiently important to promote the most suitable candidate. Thus, we give a possible explanation for why individual performance schemes are less often observed in practice than predicted by theory. Furthermore, optimally trading off incentive and selection issues causes a form of the Peter Principle: The less suitable agent has an inefficiently high probability of promotion.
Schlagwörter: 
Promotion Tournaments
Piece Rates
Hidden Characteristics
Hidden Action
JEL: 
D82
D86
M52
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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