Agency, Firm Growth and Managerial Turnover

Ronald Anderson, Stéphane Guibaud and Maria Cecilia Bustamante

No 9147, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We study managerial incentive provision under moral hazard in a firm subject to stochastic growth opportunities. In our model, managers are dismissed after poor performance, but also when an alternative manager is more capable of growing the firm. The optimal contract may involve managerial entrenchment, such that growth opportunities are foregone after good performance. Firms with better growth prospects have higher managerial turnover and more front-loaded compensation. Firms may pay severance to incentivize their managers to report truthfully the arrival of growth opportunities. By ignoring the externality of the dismissal policy onto future managers, the optimal contract implies excessive retention.

Keywords: Agency; Compensation policy; Firm growth; Managerial turnover; Optimal contracting; Severance pay (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G30 G35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-cse, nep-cta, nep-fdg and nep-hrm
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