March 24, 2023, 14:00–15:30
Toulouse
Room Auditorium 4
Finance Seminar
Abstract
Stock prices reflect managerial performance and aggregate investor information about investment opportunities. These dual roles are often in tension: when prices are more informative about future opportunities, they may be less effective at incentivizing managerial effort. As a result, firm value can decrease with revelatory price efficiency, but increase with ex-post inefficient investment rules and lower transparency. The interaction of these dual roles has novel implications not only for the performance sensitivity of managerial compensation but also its duration and the optimal allocation of control rights. Finally, we demonstrate that standard empirical measures of price informativeness are incomplete absent information about the firm’s investment opportunities.
Keywords
Feedback effect, contracting; optimal compensation; price efficiency; transparency;