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can offer an ex-post contract. Escape clauses are valuable when the maximal number of initial contracts is smaller than … the benefit of a better-adapted contract against an increase in dynamic inefficiency. …
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-proof contract as a Markov Perfect Equilibrium(MPE) of the game, prove such a MPE exists, and characterize the optimal contractvia an … extended Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman system. We solve the optimal contract inclosed form when the discount functions of the selves …
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derive the optimal contract for both experimentation and production when the agent has private information about his … asymmetric information is endogenously determined by the length of the experimentation stage. An optimal contract uses the length …
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In this paper, we show that whenever the agent's outside option is nonzero, the optimal contract in the continuous …. The agent is then asked to resume effort, and the contract continues. We show that a nonzero agent's outside option arises …
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limited liability. It is shown that a simple share-or-nothing with bonus contract (SonBo for short) is optimal and implements … liability. No other contract can do better than SonBo. SonBo contracts have one degree of freedom, which is useful in dealing …
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relational contract could establish cooperation through peer monitoring even under relative performance evaluation, which …
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trades off the instantaneous audit cost versus the drift of the cash flow process. The contract is implemented in standard …
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Principals seek to trade with agents by posting incentive contracts in a search environment. A contract solves the ex …
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derive the optimal contract for both experimentation and production when the agent has private information about his … asymmetric information is endogenously determined by the length of the experimentation stage. An optimal contract uses the length …
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We study the effects of granting an exit option that enables the private party to early terminate a PPP project if it turns out to be loss-making. In a continuous time setting with hidden information about stochastic operating profits, we show that a revenue-maximizing government can optimally...
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