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A brief examination of public and private debt suggests that the relation between the two is highly significant, and that recent concerns about the need for austerity are misplaced.
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Following Jeske's (2006) decentralized international risk sharing arrangement where residents have access to … international capital markets, this paper studies the presence of resident default risk on borrowing happened between domestic … agents, in addition to default risk on private debt contracts across border. The paper shows that, without the assumption of …
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In this paper it is demonstrated that voluntary bargaining over a collective decision under asymmetric information may well lead to ex post efficiency if the default decision is non-trivial. It is argued that the default decision may be interpreted as a 'simple' contract that the parties have...
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Using a gift exchange experiment, we show that the ability of reciprocity to overcome incentive problems inherent in principal-agent settings is greatly reduced when the agent’s effort is distorted by random shocks and transmitted imperfectly to the principal. Specifically, we find that gift...
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This paper discusses the design of a novel multi-dimensional mechanism which allows a principal to procure a single project or an item from multiple suppliers through a two-step payment. The suppliers are capable of producing different qualities at costs which cannot exceed a certain value and...
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the approach of the paradigm of the theory of incentives Laffont and Tirole (1993), this paper discusses the effects of …
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A unilateral policy intervention by a country (such as the introduction of an emission price) can induce firms to relocate to other countries. We analyze a dynamic game where a regulator offers contracts to avert relocation of a firm in each of two periods. The firm can undertake a...
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contract theory. …
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providers. An introduction to relevant aspects of contract theory is followed by their adaptation to the characteristics of the … conflicts of interest once a contract has been sealed (ex post). The theory based conclusions are contrasted with the situation …
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