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Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium

Guerrieri, Veronica - 2009

contract and search literatures …

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Optimal Employment Contracts with Hidden Search

Lentz, Rasmus - 2014

In this paper I explore optimal employment contract design in a random search framework, where workers search on and …

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On the Role of Learning, Human Capital, and Performance Incentives for Wages

Camargo, Braz; Lange, Fabian; Pastorino, Elena - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Performance pay in general amounts to only a small fraction of total pay. In this paper, we show that performance pay is nevertheless important for the level and dynamics of wages over the life cycle because of the incentives it indirectly provides for human capital acquisition and because of...

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Contracts as Reference Points

Hart, Oliver - 2006

We argue that a contract provides a reference point for a trading relationship: more precisely, for parties' feelings … permitted by the contract. A party who is shortchanged shades on performance. A flexible contract allows parties to adjust their …

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The Visible Hand, the Invisible Hand and Efficiency

Goldman, Eitan - 2000

When a firm forms a market closes. Resources that were previously allocated via the price system are allocated by managerial authority within the firm. We explore this choice of organizational form using a model of price formation in which agents negotiate prices on behalf of their principals...

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Entrepreneurship in Equilibrium

Gromb, Denis - 2002

This paper compares the financing of new ventures in start-ups (entrepreneurship) and in established firms (intrapreneurship). Intrapreneurship allows established firms to use information on failed intrapreneurs to redeploy them into other jobs. By contrast, failed entrepreneurs must seek other...

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Remedies for Sick Insurance

McFadden, Daniel L. - 2012

This expository paper describes the factors that contribute to failure of health insurance markets, and the regulatory mechanisms that have been and can be used to combat these failures. Standardized contracts and creditable coverage mandates are discussed, along with premium support, enrollment...

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Nudges in Exercise Commitment Contracts : A Randomized Trial

Bhattacharya, Jay - 2015

enroll in a subsequent commitment contract after the original expires if they receive a nudge for a longer duration initial … contract. Our theoretical analysis of the welfare implications of these effects shows conditions under which nudges can reduce …

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Rigidity of Public Contracts

Moszoro, Marian - 2015

also find that contract length and the frequency of rigidity clauses increases in political contestability and closer to …

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Short-term, Long-term, and Continuing Contracts

Halonen-Akatwijuka, Maija - 2015

gains from trade exist in the first period, and may or may not exist in the second period. A long-term contract that … second period. A short-term contract is disadvantageous since a new contract must be negotiated if gains from trade exist in … the second period. A continuing contract can be better. In a continuing contract there is no obligation to trade in the …

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