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Contractual and Organizational Structure with Reciprocal Agents
Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen - 2021
Empirically, compensation systems generate substantial effort despite weak monetary incentives. We consider reciprocal motivations as a source of incentives. We solve for the optimal contract in the basic principal-agent problem and show that reciprocal motivations and explicit performance-based...
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Conditional Cooperation and the Effect of Punishment
Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2018
We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish … cooperation. We find that the possibility of being punished increases the strength of conditional cooperation. At the same time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912687
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A Theory of Tax Avoidance -- Managerial Incentives for Tax Planning in a Multi-Task Principal-Agent Model
Ewert, Ralf - 2014
We derive determinants of tax avoidance by means of a multi-task principal-agent model. We extend prevailing models by integrating both corporate and individual income taxation as well as by including tax planning effort in the agent's action portfolio. Our model shows novel and apparently...
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Illiquidity and Under-Valuation of Firms
Gale, Douglas M. - 2012
We study a competitive model in which market incompleteness implies that debt-financed firms may default in some states of nature and default may lead to the sale of the firms' assets at fire sale prices when markets are illiquid. This incompleteness is the only friction in the model and the...
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Signing Distortions in Optimal Tax and Other Adverse Selection Problems with Random Participation
Jacquet, Laurence - 2012
We develop a methodology to sign output distortions in the random participation framework. We apply our method to monopoly nonlinear pricing problem, to the regulatory monopoly problem and mainly to the optimal income tax problem. In the latter framework, individuals are heterogeneous across two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108085
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Information Transmission and Ownership Consolidation in Aid Programs
Dreher, Axel - 2013
example of a “delegation-scheme.” Conversely, project aid represents a more “centralized” type of aid. According to the theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073609
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Information Transmission within Federal Fiscal Architectures : Theory and Evidence
Dreher, Axel - 2013
This paper explores the role of information transmission and misaligned interests across levels of government in explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075612
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Incentive Contracts and Efficient Unemployment Benefits
Demougin, Dominique; Helm, Carsten - 2021
Several European countries have reformed their labor market institutions. Incentive effects of unemployment benefits have been an important aspect of these reforms. We analyze this issue in a principal-agent model, focusing on unemployment levels and labor productivity. In our model, a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316365
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Rumors and Runs in Opaque Markets : Evidence from Panic of 1907
Fohlin, Caroline - 2016
impact of information asymmetry during the liquidity freeze and market run of October 1907 - one of the most severe financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981593
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Finance, Labour, Capital, and International Integration
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2016
Labour incomes depend on structural as well as politico-economic factors, because labour market policies partially remedy the financial market imperfections that make labour income shocks difficult to insure, and have different implications for labour and capital income. This paper illustrates...
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