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Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström were awarded the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their fundamental contributions to contract theory. This article offers a short summary and discussion of their path breaking work.
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This paper addresses the question, what metrics should be used for performance evaluation and in particular how they should be weighted and combined in the presence of technological interdependencies when the agents exhibit variedly strong developed rivalry. We find that the principal reacts to...
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This paper analyzes the impact of heterogeneous (social) preferences on the weighting and combination of performance measures as well as on a firm’s profitability. We consider rivalry, egoism and altruism as extreme forms within the continuum of possible preferences and show that the principal...
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This paper shows in two ways that the degree to which free-riding diminishes the performance of deterministic partnerships may be less than has been generally thought. First, a necessary and sufficient condition is provided for a partnership to sustain full efficiency. It implies that many...
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processing affect the returns to scale of organizations. We identify three informational (dis)economies of scale: diversification …
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We propose a simple model of borrower optimism in competitive lending markets with asymmetric information. Borrowers in our model engage in self-deception to arrive at a belief that optimally trades off the anticipatory utility benefits and material costs of optimism. Lenders' contract design...
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optimal screening mechanism and characterize its distortions. We analyze the inefficiency of the monopolist's offers in terms …
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' productivities from their education choices. In reality, firms also use sophisticated pre-employment auditing to learn workers …
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), and firms have the option of auditing to learn workers' productivities. Audits are costly and non-contractible. We … characterize the trade-offs between signaling by workers and costly auditing by firms. Auditing is always associated with (partial … feature new auditing patterns and explain empirical observations in labor economics like wage differentials and comparative …
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relevant for football teams: Other smaller organizations or profit centers whose team structures seem comparable to those of …
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