Dasgupta, Sudipto and Shin, Jhinyoung (2004) Managerial risk-taking incentives, product market competition, and welfare. European Economic Review, 48 (2). pp. 391-401. ISSN 0014-2921
Full text not available from this repository.Abstract
Managers’ compensation may increase with the variance of the firm's profits. This paper investigates how this affects their choice of strategic variables, and how that affects managerial compensation. The social welfare aspects of this interaction are analyzed in a duopoly setting with uncertain linear demand and linear marginal cost. Compared to a situation in which the managers’ compensation does not depend on the variance of profits, social welfare may be either higher, lower, or remain unaffected, depending on the slope of the marginal cost curve and whether the competing firms produce goods that are demand substitutes or complements.