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competition. When transfer prices are observable, both firms' headquarters will exclude their marketing division from the external …
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output market competition and production externalities. In absence of competition, tidy cost allocations are creating … free rider problem in team production by a profit sharing scheme. Under duopolistic competition, transfer prices are still … the best accounting rule but the solution depends on the nature of competition on the final product market. When firms …
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This paper analyzes a mechanism through which product market competition affects allocation of the managerial efforts … reduction (productive effort) and rent protection (unproductive effort). An increase in competition, measured by the number of … identifies the conditions under which product market competition lowers the cost of providing incentives for productive effort …
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novel feature is the competition between lenders in their choice of contracts offered. Qualities of investment projects are … themselves across all offered contracts. Competition of banks introduces three possibilities for a breakdown of credit markets …
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crucial novel feature is the competition between lenders in their choice of contracts offered. The quality of investment … distribute themselves across all offered contracts. Competition between banks introduces three possibilities for a breakdown of …
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We analyze the contracting structure in a moral hazard setting with several agents where output is produced jointly and is the only contractible variable. Since the salary of each agent is a function of all agents efforts, a positive externality arises between them. This externality is not...
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Coal mining firms used the intermediary organization of labor called the gdormitory system.h In the 1900s, coal mining machinery was not introduced yet, traditional manual skills were dominant and firms usually did not enter the inside of their coal mines. Under these circumstances, firms did...
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This paper provides a theoretical model for explaining the separation of ownership and control in fi rms. An entrepreneur hires a worker for providing effort to complete a project. The worker's effort determines the probability that the project is completed on time, but the worker receives...
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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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The paper analyzes how the choice of organizational structure leads to the best compromise between controlling behavior based on authority rights and minimizing costs for implementing high efforts. Concentrated delegation and hierarchical delegation turn out to be never an optimal compromise. If...
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