We study optimal incentive contracts in a continuous time principal-agent setting with hidden actions. The agent, whose effort controls the output, has a concave utility function which is non-separable in wealth and monetary cost of effort. The principal is risk neutral and optimally selects the...

The analysis of many complex problems and complex dynamic systems suggests that there are dependencies between high complexity and properties of the underlying structures, as the existence of large grids, non-regularities and inhomogeneous structures and irregular flows of information. These...

This paper shows that liquidity constraints restrict job creation even with flexible labor markets. In a dynamic model of firm investment and demand for labor with imperfect capital markets, represented as a constraint on dividends, and imperfect labor markets, contained in legal firing costs...

Continuous time models in the theory of real options give explicit formulas for optimal exercise strategies when options are simple and the price of an underlying asset follows a geometric Brownian motion. This paper suggests a general, computationally simple approach to real options in discrete...

This paper applies a dynamic programming methodology to the valuation problem for the flexibility to switch. In our model, flexibility provides an investor with the right, or option, to perform a switch between a less profitable and a more profitable project at no cost. In contrast to previous...

This paper examines the effects of uncertainty through dynamic learning about the firm's project value in the real options framework. We extend the real options framework with incomplete information by allowing an unobserved state variable that drives profits to follow a stochastic process with...

Alvarez and Jermann (2000) show that the constrained efficient allocations of endowment economies with complete markets and limited commitment can be decentralized with endogenous borrowing limits on the Arrow securities. In a model with capital accumulation, aggregate risk and competitive...

The literature on private information as a source of trade is probably most well known via the seminal work by Jean Tirole and Paul Milgrom and Nancy Stokey. We consider an arbitrage opportunity to be the result of the existence of such private information. We are interested to propose a model...