Hoppe, Eva I.; Kusterer, David J. - In: European Economic Review 55 (2011) 8, pp. 1094-1108
We study a multi-task principal-agent problem in which tasks can be in direct conflict with each other. In theory, it is difficult to induce a single agent to exert efforts in two conflicting tasks, because effort in one task decreases the success probability of the other task. We have conducted...