The Impact of Incentive Pay on Corporate Crime

This paper presents a moral hazard model analyzing the agent's incentive to commit corporate crime. The principal can only observe profits which the agent can increase by committing crime or exerting effort. It is shown how different incentive contracts, i.e., thresholdlinear, capped bonus...

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Pubblicato in:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 52-2017)
Autore principale: Herold, Daniel
Natura: Articolo
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2017
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Riassunto:This paper presents a moral hazard model analyzing the agent's incentive to commit corporate crime. The principal can only observe profits which the agent can increase by committing crime or exerting effort. It is shown how different incentive contracts, i.e., thresholdlinear, capped bonus and linear contracts, can be adjusted in order to promote agent's law abiding behavior. Any adjustment implies a loss in internal efficiency which decreases in individual sanctions imposed on the agent.
Descrizione fisica:34 Seiten
ISSN:1867-3678
DOI:10.17192/es2024.0549