Optimizing Incentive Plan Design: A Case Study
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Keywords
incentives; ratchet effect;JEL classification:
- M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
- J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
- M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
- L81 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2011-10-01 (Business Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2011-10-01 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2011-10-01 (Labour Economics)
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