Sticks or carrots? Optimal CEO compensation when managers are loss averse

Journal of Finance

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2015-2050

  Dittmann, Ingolf ^a   Maug, Ernst ^b   Spalt, Oliver ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 78249241199     PISSN: 00221082     EISSN: 15406261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2010.01609.x     Document Type: Article

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