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rents can be used to provide incentives. Preferences for reciprocity still affect the structure of an employment … interaction. Therefore, reciprocity-based and repeated-game incentives are dynamic substitutes, but complements at any given point …
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joint bonus floor is useful because of its role in motivating the agents to mutually monitor each other (team incentives …
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"Implicit Contracts, incentive compatibility, and involuntary unemployment" (MacLeod and Malcomson, 1989) remains our most highly cited work. We briefly review the development of this paper and of our subsequent related work, and conclude with reflections on the future of relational contract...
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Optimally reallocating human capital to tasks is key for an organization to successfully navigate a transition. We study how to design employment contracts to allocate employees to different valuable projects within an organization given two simultaneous challenges: The employees have private...
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This paper analyses bargaining over an incentive compatible contract in a moral hazard framework. We introduce the Kalai-Smorodinsky bargaining solution and compare the outcome with the commonly applied Nash solution. Whether worker's effort is higher in the Nash or the Kalai-Smorodinsky...
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assumption, which we relax. We find that, although monetary incentives are effective also with sociallyattentive agents, the … monetary incentives. We also show that the principal benefits from having a socially-attentive agent and how she optimally …
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Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström were awarded the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their fundamental contributions to contract theory. This article offers a short summary and discussion of their path breaking work.
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provision of informal incentives. Developing a model of a long-term employment relationship, I show that generous upfront wages … incentives promising a bonus in exchange for effort are more effective. Then, a longer remaining time horizon increases the … employer’s commitment. Generally, direct and reciprocity-based incentives reinforce each other and should thus optimally be …
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This paper explores the optimal provision of dynamic incentives for employees with reciprocal preferences. Building on … his career. I also show that more competition might magnify the use of reciprocity-based incentives, and that a formal …
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We consider a relational contracting model in which the parties choose to allocate authority either to the principal (centralization) or to the agent (delegation). The party who has authority chooses a project, and the agent exerts effort to successfully execute the project. Delegation generates...
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