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Partnerships are the prevalent organizational form in many industries. Most partnerships share profits equally among …
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Partnerships are the prevalent organizational form in many industries. Most partnerships share profits equally among …
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Partnerships are the prevalent organizational form in many industries. Most partnerships share profits equally among …
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of retaining them but do not maximize their productivity. By contrast, equity partnerships assign tasks to their partners … a novel rationale for the widespread presence of partnerships in professional services and for the tendency to move from …
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Partnerships are the prevalent organizational form in many industries. Profits are most frequently shared equally among … averse partners the equal sharing rule is the unique sharing rule that maximizes the agents' incentives to exert effort. We … further show that inequity aversion can enhance efficiency in partnerships of given size, but that it can also cause …
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The granting of stock options to employees who have negligible impact on company performance intuitively violates Holmstrom's (1979) sufficient statistic result. This paper revisits the sufficient statistic question of when to condition a contract on an outside signal in a principal-agent model...
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; optimism ; incentives ; signals ; stock options …
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This paper analyzes relational contracts under moral hazard. We first show that if the available information (signal) about effort satisfies a generalized monotone likelihood ratio property, then irrespective of whether the first-order approach (FOA) is valid or not, the optimal bonus scheme...
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We study relational contracting and renegotiation in environments with external enforcement of long-term contractual arrangements. An external, long-term contract governs the stage games the contracting parties will play in the future (depending on verifiable stage-game outcomes) until they...
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The theory of incentives and matching theory can complement each other. In particular, matching theory can be a tool …
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