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Why executives should be paid more than they deserve
If workers are paid their marginal product its difficult to understand why some CEOs are paid such high wages. But think of the CEO's wage as a prize. Valuable prizes make everyone else work hard in order to become the CEO. With this model, the tournament model (JSTOR) of Lazear and Rosen, it may even make sense that CEO wages go up as profits go down. After all, shouldn't prizes be set highest when motivation is most required? No doubt, some will see this argument as more proof that economists are just shills for the capitalist class.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on September 22, 2003 at 09:34 AM in Economics | Permalink
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