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Optimal contracting with private military and security companies
Fahn, Matthias; Hadjer, Tahmina - In: European Journal of Political Economy 37 (2015) C, pp. 220-240
Private military and security companies (PMSCs) have been gaining increasing media and scholarly attention particularly due to their indispensable role in the wars in Afghanistan 2001 and Iraq 2003. Nevertheless, theoretical insights into the agency problems inherent when hiring PMSCs and how to...
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How Blackwater Takes Uncle Sam for a Ride - and Why He Likes It
Fahn, Matthias; Hadjer, Tahmina Sadat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have been gaining increasing media and scholarly attention particularly due to their indispensable role in the wars in Afghanistan 2001 and Iraq 2003. Nevertheless, theoretical insights into the agency problems inherent when hiring PMSCs and how to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210875
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Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Risk and the Behavior of Individual Preferences under Moral Hazard
Bianconi, Marcelo - Department of Economics, Tufts University - 2004
We consider the effect of alternative individual preference towards effort conditional on aggregate risk in a principal-agent relationship under moral hazard. We find that agents can explore a negative correlation between individual preference towards effort and aggregate risk to further...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102132
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Agency theory: choice-based foundations of the parametrized distribution formulation
Karni, Edi - In: Economic Theory 36 (2008) 3, pp. 337-351
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The Agency Problem in New Institutional Economics
Otáhal, Tomáš - In: Politická ekonomie 2009 (2009) 5, pp. 677-695
the theory of firm, the theory of market process and the theory of property rights. The second section is dedicated to the …
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Agency Revisited
Casadesus-Masanell, Casadesus-Masanell Ramón; Spulber, … - Fundación BBVA - 2007
The working paper presents a comprehensive overview of the principal-agent model that emphasizes the role of trust in the agency relationship. The analysis demonstrates that the legal remedy for breach of duty can result in a full-information efficient outcome eliminating both moral hazard and...
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Combinatorial agency
Babaioff, Moshe; Feldman, Michal; Nisan, Noam; Winter, Eyal - In: Journal of Economic Theory 147 (2012) 3, pp. 999-1034
We study a combinatorial variant of the classical principal-agent model. In our setting a principal wishes to incentivize a team of strategic agents to exert costly effort on his behalf. Agentsʼ actions are hidden and the principal observes only the outcome of the team, which depends...
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Review of Guillaume Plantin and Jean-Charles Rochet, When Insurers Go Bust: An Economic Analysis of the Role and Design of Prudential Regulation
Marshall, John - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 16 (2009) 1, pp. 139-146
When Insurers Go Bust applies agency theory and the theories of adverse selection and moral hazard as the motivation …, and transparency. In consequence, ruin theory does not have an operational role. Theory is applied in familiar ways that … inappropriate emphasis on the general theory of excessive risk-taking, which tends to deflect attention from the specific nature of …
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Is Leverage Effective in Increasing Performance Under Managerial Moral Hazard?
Calcagno, R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000
We consider a model in which the principal-agent relation between inside shareholders and the management affects the firm value.We study the effect of financing the project with risky debt in changing the incentive for a risk-neutral shareholder (the principal) to implement the project-value...
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Contingent Capital; Economic Rationale and Design Features
Pazarbasioglu, Ceyla; Zhou, Jian-Ping; Leslé, Vanessa Le; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
The causes of the global financial crisis were multi-faceted but revealed still unresolved weaknesses in national and international financial oversight and resolution frameworks. In particular, many governments in the crisis-hit countries had to provide unprecedented levels of support to contain...
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