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This note demonstrates how performance measure congruity and noise determine an agency's total surplus within an linear agency framework with multiple tasks. It provides a decomposition of agency costs, leading back to a congruity index previously proposed in the literature. In addition, it...
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We study optimal incentive contracts with multiple agents when performance evaluation is delegated to a reviewer. The reviewer may be biased in favor of the agents, but the degree of the bias is unknown to the principal. We show that a contest, which is a contract in which the principal...
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). As firm value is non‐contractible by assumption, an incentive contract is written on accounting income. The manager … with regard to accounting discretion. Third, he needs to specify contracting details. If an internal information system is … environment becomes more volatile. Holding either the IIS choice or the accounting system choice constant, we observe the …
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According to psychologists and neuroscientists, a key source of intrinsic motivation is learning. An economic model of this is presented. Learning may make work less onerous, or the employee may value it in and of itself. Multitasking generates learning: performing one task increases...
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