It has been argued in the multitask agency literature that effort distortion can be mitigated by applying several …

problem to design a contract that provides an expert with incentives to acquire and reveal information. We show that it is in … provision of incentives when the realized state is not verifiable …

leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with non-integration. Our theory makes minimal assumptions about the … managers. The division managers' job is to create profitable investment projects. Giving the managers incentives to do so …' incentives. The resulting tradeoff between a better use of resources and diminished incentives for effort determines whether …

This paper seeks to explore how an agent's incentives to perform influences her performance. We analyze this question … show that the relationship between the incentives to perform and the expected performance could be negative. The paper thus … offers a novel, non-behavioral explanation for the failure of incentives …

This paper examines the optimal provision of incentives for contract designers. A principal hires an agent to draft a …