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are not possible, the insured is faced with a commitment problem since he may want to renegotiate the contract or change …
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result, the complete contract may become too complex (or too costly) to devise and manage directly. My contention in this …
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In this paper, we examine the effect of increases in health care costs and general inflation on optimal insurance policies and waste in a model of imperfect information with costly auditing. We show that in such a setting, individuals will buy more than full insurance. Moreover, as the cost of...
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principal wants to design a contract that uses this correlated information. We find that the fully specified contract may be too …
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This paper addresses the question of whether R&D should be carried out by an independent research unit or be produced in-house by the firm marketing the innovation. We define two organizational structures. In an integrated structure, the firm that markets the innovation also carries out and...
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This paper characterizes the optimal insurance contract in an environment where an informed agent can misrepresent the …), the optimal contract is such that higher losses are over-compensated while lower losses are on average under …-compensated. The amount by which higher losses are over-compensated decreases as the loss increases. The optimal contract may then be …
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other relationships must have to be viable is thereby thrown out of kilter. The risk of becoming the victim of opportunism … opportunism, remains the principle underlying all of contract law and company law." Ce texte explore l'emploi de l …
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reasonably well-developed economic literature. Reciprocal gain, the founding concept of contract and of extensions such as the … of contract law. Yet human nature being what it is, individuals may be tempted by opportunistic acts and their potential …
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I examine the case where fulfillment of a contractual commitment is only imperfectly verifiable and ask whether the court should then "tell the truth"" regarding the action in dispute. I show that truth seeking does not maximize the expected surplus from contractual relationships. From the...
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In this paper, we consider a knowledge accumulation problem within an organization. We depart from the human capital theory initiated by Becker (1962, 1964) and consider an organization that cannot prevent the worker from quitting and using the knowledge outside the organization. We study how...
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