Some Incentives Reading...

A student in the other class asked me to recommend some articles on compensation systems and incentives, so I figured I would also put the list here. Most of these articles should be available online through the HOLLIS catalog.

Holmstrom, Bengt and Paul Milgrom. 1991. “Multitask Principal-Agent Analyses: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership, and Job Design.” Journal of Law Economics and Organizations 7: 24-52

Baker, George. 1992. “Incentive Contracts and Performance Measurement.” Journal of Political Economy 100:3.

Lazear, Edward and Sherwin Rosen. 1981. “Rank-Order Tournaments as Optimum Labor Contracts.” Journal of Political Economy 89:5 841-64.

Prendergast, Canice. 1999. “The Provision of Incentives in Firms.” Journal of Economic Literature 37:1 7-63.

Oyer, Paul. 1998. “Fiscal Year Ends and Non-Linear Incentive Contracts: The Effect on Business Seasonality.” Quarterly Journal of Economics. CXIII, 149-185.

Healy, Paul M. “The Effect of Bonus Schemes on Accounting Decisions.” Journal of Accounting and Economics 7 (1985): 85-107.

Courty, Pascal and Gerald Marschke, “M. “An Empirical Investigation of Gaming Responses to Explicit Performance Incentives,” Journal of Labor Economics forthcoming.

Roy, Donald. 1952. “Quota Restriction and Goldbricking in a Machine Shop” The American Journal of Sociology, 57:5 427-442.

You could also look at the articles that these reference for further resources.