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policy. We build on these results to address issues related to authority in organizations. …
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This paper offers a rationale for limiting the delegation of (real) authority, which neither relies on insurance …
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We study an organization, consisting of a manager and a worker, whose success depends on its ability to estimate a payoff-relevant but unknown parameter. If the manager has private information about this parameter, she has an incentive to conceal it from the worker in order to motivate him to...
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This paper studies team design in the context of a standard risk-neutral principal-agent model with contractual constraints. I introduce heterogeneity in agents' technologies in terms of how agents shift probability mass across states of nature when they exert effort. Moral hazard and...
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based on authority rights and minimizing costs for implementing high efforts. Concentrated delegation and hierarchical … cross-authority delegation is the optimal form of full delegation. If, however, the division heads are more efficient than …
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based on authority rights and minimizing costs for implementing high efforts. The analysis includes the owner of a firm, a … delegation of authority to them to replace their high incentive pay by incentives based on private benefits of control. In that …, but concentrated delegation of full authority to a single division head is optimal for cooperation being crucial. If …
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based on authority rights and minimizing costs for implementing high efforts. Concentrated delegation and hierarchical … cooperation, but cross-authority delegation is optimal for cooperation being crucial. If, however, the division heads are clearly … partial delegation if selfish behavior is crucial. -- authority ; centralization ; contracts ; decentralization ; moral hazard …
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based on authority rights and minimizing costs for implementing high efforts. Concentrated delegation and hierarchical … cooperation, but cross-authority delegation is optimal for cooperation being crucial. If, however, the division heads are clearly …
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Rewards to prevent supervisors from accepting bribes create incentives for extortion. This raises the question whether a supervisor who can engage in bribery and extortion can still be useful in providing incentives. By highlighting the role of team work in forging information, we present a...
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We analyze a dynamic principal-agent problem with moral hazard and private learning. Each period the agent faces a choice between two actions: a safe action with known returns (exploitation) and a costly risky action with unknown returns (experimentation). We explicitly characterize the cheapest...
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