The risk and incentives trade-off in the presence of heterogeneous managers

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 209-223

  Wright, Donald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Incentives; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 11944250210     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00712-004-0085-7     Document Type: Article

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