Each period, a principal must assign one of two agents to a new task. Profit is stochastically higher when the agent is qualified for the task, but the principal cannot observe qualification. Her only decision is which of the two agents to assign, if any, given the public history of selections...

This paper uses a mechanism design without transfer approach to investigate the optimal communication mechanism in a two-division organization. The principal, with perfect commitment power on multiple decision rules, wants decisions to be both adapted to local conditions and coordinated with...

The standard narrative of entrepreneurship is of self-employed creative individuals working out of their garage or independently owned start-up companies. Intrapreneurship — where employees are responsible for being alert to new opportunities inside firms — is another model for developing...

Thousands of years ago, Roman businessmen often ran joint businesses through commonly owned, highly intelligent slaves. Roman slaves did not have full legal capacity and were considered property of their co-owners. Now business corporations are looking to delegate decision-making to uber...

This paper establishes an agent-based model to describe the dynamic behaviour of the financial market with mutual fund managers and investors under two types of compensation contracts: asset-based fees and performance-based fees, and using two types of adaptive expectation: trend chaser and...

This paper analyzes the problem of a benevolent planner wishing to control a population of heterogeneous agents subject to idiosyncratic shocks. This is equivalent to a deterministic control problem in which the state variable is the cross-sectional distribution. We show how, in continuous time,...