The Managerial Compensation Responding to Earnings Manipulation Ruoyu Zhang** August 10, 2012 Abstract When the true earning in each period is private information to the agent, then the performance based pay provides the agent with incentive to misallocate the earnings to get more compensation. To address the concern of earnings manipulation problem, SEC imposed a strict disclosure regulation in 1993. An optimal managerial contract should be designed not only to provide the agent with an
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Autumn Mullins Mr. McGinnis English Composition 111 11/27/13 A White Thanksgiving Snow is beautiful, fun and an enjoyable sight during the holidays but it could cause a huge deal of stress, problems, and even danger. This year, the day beforeThanksgiving, North Carolina Mountains experienced an early winter storm. Children in several counties had a frigid, fun day in the snow, throwing snowballs, building snowmen and making delicious snow cream for a cold treat. However, the storm affected
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inherent in the traditional insurance mechanism11. Efficiency With free choice and free market, people have the incentive for enjoying maximum services and claiming full benefits offered by the insurance scheme. It leads to a demand side moral hazard problem for over-consumption of services which causes market inefficiency12. Under the
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Economics Institution Name The Keynesian economics theory explains that in the short run and especially during a period of recession, the economic output of a nation is greatly influenced by the aggregate demand. It argues that private sector creates inefficiency in the market and need the intervention of the government through fiscal and monetary policy. Classical economics on the other side explain that the government should not be involved in the market. The proponents say that the market
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from being harmed by work or becoming ill by taking the right precautions. -Health and safety laws are found because health and safety at work is so important. -The law is there to protect the public from workplace dangers. - Employers are ethically required to provide a safe and healthy workplace for their employees. -Ethics instruct the individuals and organization as to what they should do. * Body: - Health is the state of well-being in which all components of health are in balance. -Components
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1. Background Introduction This paper looks into Cox Proportional Hazards model and constructs a mortgage default model to estimate the hazard rates of certain residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) on a loan-level basis. We analyze loans from an individual credit perspective instead of pool-level basis so that the model would closely fit each loan. This gives us the flexibility to adjust portfolio by observing individual loans and re-estimate their risks accordingly. Ever since early
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risk persons. One such selection measure is to add pre-existing conditions clauses to the policy that prevents or excludes coverage for certain conditions for a specified period of time. Adverse selection and the demand for healthcare create a moral hazard which stems from the fact that people will demand less healthcare services based on the elasticity of their demand curve thus the more insurance pays the more people will use it and the more they have to pay the less they will exploit (Schenk, n
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AP ECONOMICS CHAPTER 5 QUIZ 1. The functional distribution of income refers to the: A. division of income between personal taxes, consumption expenditures, and saving. B. division of income on the basis of industry sources, for example, agriculture, transportation, mining, etc. C. distribution of income to basic resource classes, that is, wages, rents, interest, and profits. D. way income is distributed among specific households or spending units. 2. Listed in descending order of relative
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in the right directions with floodplain and risked management. Due to the terrorist attacks on that day, change the way America took their approach on homeland security. All the focus and money shifted to US Department of Defense, and the natural hazard management was kind of put on the back burner and basically forgot about until Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Hurricane Katrina changed the game for how America planned for flooding and risk management
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medical practitioner) to claim for weekly payments, then complete the ‘Worker's Injury Claim Form’ for compensation. Give both papers to his employer (hand delivered or by registered mail). c. As an employer you must provide a safe and healthy workplace for your workers and contractors. What 5 things do you need to do to ensure you have a safe working environment? 1. provide and maintain safe machinery and equipment, and safe systems of work (such as controlling entry to high risk areas, controlling
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