ability to monitor the actions of the agent at an interim stage of the project. I show that monitoring can induce the agent to … is not a one-way street: Situations exist where monitoring encourages greater effort from the agent, resulting in greater … agent involvement is costly, monitoring is often the optimal strategy; this is an explanation for why venture capital type …

Teacher absenteeism and shirking are common problems in developing countries. While monitoring teachers should … paper provides causal evidence that this might result from non-monotonic effects of monitoring teachers. Cross … extent than in schools where only parents are nudged. Monitoring backfires precisely for teachers who were most motivated at …

loans. This practice has an adverse effect on commercial banks' monitoring incentives, encouraging the pursuit of private …