Relative performance evaluation and peer-performance summarization errors

Shane S. Dikolli

doi:10.1007/s11142-012-9212-9

Relative performance evaluation and peer-performance summarization errors

2012-10-06

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DOI：10.1007/s11142-012-9212-9

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In tests of the relative performance evaluation (RPE) hypothesis, empiricists rarely aggregate peer performance in the same way as a firm's board of directors. Framed as a standard errors-in-variables problem, a commonly held view is that such aggregation errors attenuate the regression coefficient on systematic firm performance towards zero, which creates a bias in favor of the strong-form RPE hypothesis. In contrast, we analytically demonstrate that aggregation differences generate more complicated summarization errors, which create a bias against finding support for strong-form RPE (potentially inducing a Type-II error). Using simulation methods, we demonstrate the sensitivity of empirical inferences to the bias by showing how an empiricist can conclude erroneously that boards, on average, do not apply RPE, simply by selecting more, fewer, or different peers than the board does. We also show that when the board does not apply RPE, empiricists will not find support for RPE (that is, precluding a Type-I error).

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Relative performance evaluation

Peer group

Aggregation

Incentive compensation

Summarization error

Relative performance evaluation and peer-performance summarization errors

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