Stock-Related Compensation and Product-Market Competition
Data
01.01.1999
01.01.1999
Autori
Giancarlo Spagnolo
Codice JEL
D43,G30,J33,L13,L21
D43,G30,J33,L13,L21
Parole chiave:
CEO Compensation,Delegation,Collusion,Oligopoly,Managerial incentives,Ownership and control,Corporate governance
CEO Compensation,Delegation,Collusion,Oligopoly,Managerial incentives,Ownership and control,Corporate governance
Publisher
Economy and Society
Economy and Society
Editor
Fausto Panunzi
Fausto Panunzi
This paper shows that as long as the stock market has perfect foresight, some dividends are distributed, and incentives are paid more than once or are deferred, stock-related compensation packages are strong incentives for managers to support tacit collusive agreements in repeated oligopolies. The stock market anticipates the losses from punishment phases and discounts them on stock prices, reducing managers’ short-run gains from any deviation. When deferred, stock-related incentives may remove all managers’ short-run gains from deviation making collusion supportable at any discount factor. The results hold with managerial contracts of any length.