Palomino, Frédéric; Prat, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Recent empirical work suggests a strong connection between the incentives money managers are offered and their risk … not only effort exertion but also risk taking behavior. The moral hazard problem with risk taking involves an incentive …-compatibility constraint on risk, which we characterize. We distinguish between one period and several periods. In the former case, under mild …