报酬方案、棘轮效应和激励成本关系研究

Reward Plan, Budget Ratchet and Motivating Cost

在委托代理关系中,委托人为了抑制代理人的机会主义行为,在设计激励机制时采用报酬方案和棘轮效应。本文采用实验方法,研究报酬方案和棘轮效应各自及它们联合起来对委托人激励成本的影响。根据实验数据分析发现:如果单独考虑报酬方案,则松驰诱导报酬方案会增加激励成本;如果单独考虑棘轮效应,则棘轮效应也可能增加激励成本;但是,当二者联合起来时,在真实诱导报酬方案下,棘轮效应并不会增加激励成本。所以,将报酬方案与棘轮效应正确地配合起来,委托人才能真正实现自己利益最大化,否则,则可能是代理人的业绩增加了,但是,委托人为换取这种业绩增加却付出了更大的激励成本,委托人得不偿失。

This paper focus on how reward plan and budget ratchet to affect motivating cost. Based on the data from experiment, we found, slack inducing reward plan on its own will lead motivating cost to increase, budget ratchet on its own will lead to motivating cost increase, but combining them together, under truth inducing reward plan, budget ratchet will not lead motivating cost to increase.