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contracts which determine their managers' salaries. One contract simply gives managers incentives to maximize firm profits …, while the second contract gives an additional sales bonus. Although theory predicts the second contract to be chosen, it is …In this experiment, we analyze strategic delegation in a Cournot duopoly. Owners can choose among two different …
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To address agents' moral hazard over effort, incentive contracts impose risk on the agents. As performance measures become noisier, the conventional agency analysis predicts that principals will reduce the incentive weights assigned to such measures. However, prior empirical results (Prendergast...
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The Iska is a joint venture involving a silent partner who provides financing and an active partner who provides labor services and who may or may not participate in the financing. Most of the discussion surrounding the contractual features of the Iska in Talmudic and medieval post-Talmudic...
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and incentives, can induce firms to behave strategically: they will offer very low bids to be awarded the contract … the specification of the type of contract to be awarded. Less attention has been paid to the incompleteness of the … contract; this issue is relevant in the public work sector because it offers room for the contract renegotiation and, therefore …
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