RUS  ENG
Full version
JOURNALS // Contributions to Game Theory and Management // Archive

Contributions to Game Theory and Management, 2016 Volume 9, Pages 287–327 (Mi cgtm291)

This article is cited in 1 paper

CEO incentive plans improvement in the U.S. public companies on the base of game theoretical modeling

Ekaterina M. Syrunina, Boris V. Yanauer

St. Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034 Russia

Abstract: The paper is aimed at improving the mechanism of forming the variable part of CEO compensation. The novelty of the given research paper is improving the methodology of evaluation the value of variable part of CEO compensation with the chosen model, so it can be applied on practice. The model is game theoretical interpretation of the principal-agent phenomenon whose objective is to model the variable part of CEO compensation to stimulate strategy implementation In detail, 14 company cases of the U.S. public companies in retail and technology industries were presented, the applicability of the model was proven and suggestions for methodology improvement were made.

Keywords: corporate governance, agency problem, CEO compensation, game theory, theoretical modeling, U.S. public companies.

Language: English



© Steklov Math. Inst. of RAS, 2026