Article ID: | iaor20082172 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 53 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 495 |
End Page Number: | 507 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2007 |
Journal: | Management Science |
Authors: | Pfeiffer Thomas, Schneider Georg |
Keywords: | information |
Earlier literature has pointed to the effectiveness of residual income-type measures based on particular accrual accounting rules such as the relative benefit allocation rule. These performance metrics have been shown to generate desirable managerial incentives when investment decisions are delegated. This paper further attests to the robustness of these measures by extending the result to a sequential adverse selection model with an inherent real option (an option to abandon). In other words, as long as the residual income measures are judiciously constructed, neither private information nor the requirement to selectively exercise an option derails their use in this setting.