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Conservation by Lending
Harstad, Bård; Storesletten, Kjetil - 2023
This project analyzes how a principal can motivate an agent to conserve rather than exploit a depletable resource. This dynamic problem is relevant for tropical deforestation as well as for other environmental problems. It is shown that the smaller is the agent's discount factor (e.g., because...
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The Conservation Multiplier
Harstad, Bård - 2020
Every government that controls an exhaustible resource must decide whether to exploit it or to conserve and thereby let the subsequent government decide whether to exploit or conserve. This paper develops a model of this situation and shows when a small probability that some future government...
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Psychological and Social Motivations in Microfinance Contracts : Theory and Evidence
Dhami, Sanjit - 2020
Microfinance contracts have enormous economic and welfare significance. We study, theoretically and empirically, the problem of effort choice under individual liability (IL) and joint liability (JL) contracts when loan repayments are made either privately, or publicly in front of one's social...
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Learning from Failures : Optimal Contract for Experimentation and Production
Khalil, Fahad - 2019
Before embarking on a project, a principal must often rely on an agent to learn about its profitability. We model this learning as a two-armed bandit problem and highlight the interaction between learning (experimentation) and production. We derive the optimal contract for both experimentation...
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Stochastic Contracts and Subjective Evaluations
Lang, Matthias - 2021
Subjective evaluations are widely used, but call for different contracts from traditional moral-hazard settings. Previous literature shows that contracts require payments to third parties, which real-world contracts rarely use. I show that the implicit assumption of deterministic contracts makes...
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Trust and Contracts : Empirical Evidence
D'Acunto, Francesco; Xie, Jin; Yao, Jiaquan - 2021
Trust between parties should drive the negotiation and design of contract: if parties did not trust each others' reaction to unplanned events, they might agree to pay higher costs of negotiation to complete contracts. Using a unique sample of U.S. principal-agent consulting contracts and a...
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Cognitive Uncertainty in Intertemporal Choice
Enke, Benjamin; Graeber, Thomas - 2021
This paper studies the relevance of cognitive uncertainty – subjective uncertainty over one’s utility-maximizing action – for understanding and predicting intertemporal choice. The main idea is that when people are cognitively noisy, such as when a decision is complex, they implicitly...
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Net neutrality and investment incentives
Choi, Jay Pil; Kim, Byung-Cheol - 2008
This paper analyzes the effects of net neutrality regulation on investment incentives for Internet service providers … trade of the first-priority. Concerning the ISP's investment incentives, we find that capacity expansion affects the sale …
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The irreversibility premium
Chirinko, Robert S.; Schaller, Huntley - 2008
When investment is irreversible, theory suggests that firms will be "reluctant to invest." This reluctance creates a … wedge between the discount rate guiding investment decisions and the standard Jorgensonian user cost (adjusted for risk). We …
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Incomplete property rights and overinvestment
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2009
encroacher's valuation of the asset is increasing in the asset owner's investment. Due to incomplete property rights, the … encroacher and asset owner engage in a contest over the control of the asset after investment has taken place. A standard result … is that the asset owner will underinvest in the asset relative to the first-best level of investment when property rights …
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