Miller, Gary J.; Whitford, Andrew B. - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 14 (2002) 2, pp. 231-267
The canonical principal-agent problem involves a risk-neutral principal who must use incentives to motivate a risk … inefficient shifting of risk to the agent. This article, however, summarizes experimental research that throws doubt on the … inefficient risk-sharing. These experimental outcomes, while anomalous from the standpoint of principal-agency theory, are quite …