of shareholders' monitoring. In contrast with other studies, we do not use regressions of risk/performance on ownership …' monitoring. On a sample of European banks, we show that the predictive power of the DD is satisfactory only when banks …

requires public intervention. This control takes the form of both monetary incentives but also monitoring taking place either … ex ante or ex post, i.e. before or after an accident occurs. We delineate the respective scopes of these monitoring …

Agency theory assumes that tighter monitoring by the principal should motivate agents to increase their effort, whereas … experiments show that many principals engage in costly monitoring, and most agents react to the disciplining effect of monitoring … by increasing effort. However, we also find some evidence that effort is crowded out when monitoring is above a certain …

Agency theory assumes that tighter monitoring by the principal should motivate the agent to raise his effort level … realtask laboratory experiment, our results show that principals are not trustful enough to refrain from monitoring the agents …, and most of the agents react to the disciplining effect of monitoring. However we find also some evidence that intrinsic …

This paper examines a financier's optimal monitoring intensity in a multi-period financing relationship.We identify … conditions under which the financier should sometimes misidentify the quality of an entrepreneur. Such an imperfect evaluation … technology affects action choices by bad entrepreneurs. We first characterize the optimal monitoring intensity and show that it …

Agency theory assumes that tighter monitoring by the principal should motivate the agent to raise his effort level … real-task laboratory experiment, our results show that principals are not trustful enough to refrain from monitoring the … agents, and most of the agents react to the disciplining effect of monitoring. However we find also some evidence that …

of Simulation & Gaming, some key features related to the implementation of gaming in such a context are introduced …