This paper tries to reconcile incentive theory with transaction costs theory. we first discuss the fundamental assumptions underlying the use of the Revelation Principle in the standard mecanisme design literature and show how various contractual incompletenesses and externalities induced by...

The purpose of this paper is to define the concept of expected minimum cost function and to present the methodology for a non parametric estimation of it. Generally, in cost enonometric analysis, inference is made on the cost function, namely the conditional expectation of cost given some level...

This paper analyses the incentives of the equityholders of a leveraged company to shut it down in a continuous time, stochastic environment. Keeping the firm as an ongoing concern has an option value but equity and debt holders value it differently. Equityholders' decisions exhibit excessive...