Strategic flexibility and the optimality of pay for sector performance

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2060-2098

  Gopalan, Radhakrishnan ^a   Milbourn, Todd ^a   Song, Fenghua ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77951215839     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhp118     Document Type: Article

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