Herweg, Fabian; Muller, Daniel; Weinschenk, Philipp - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 5, pp. 2451-77
We modify the principal-agent model with moral hazard by assuming that the agent is expectation-based loss averse according to Koszegi and Rabin (2006, 2007). The optimal contract is a binary payment scheme even for a rich performance measure, where standard preferences predict a fully...