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We introduce a new updating rule, the conditional maximum likelihood rule (CML) for updating ambiguous information. The CML formula replaces the likelihood term in Bayes’ rule with the maximal likelihood of the given signal conditional on the state. We show that CML satisfies a new axiom,...
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Work and trade relationships are often governed by relational contracts, in which incentives for cooperative action today stem from the prospective future benefits of the relationship. In this paper, we study how reductions in clarity about the financial consequences of actions, induced by...
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Work and trade relationships are often governed by relational contracts, in which incentives for cooperative action today stem from the prospective future benefits of the relationship. In this paper, we study how reductions in clarity about the financial consequences of actions, induced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981595
requires the use of an appropriate incentive contract so as to realign his interests with those of the principal. The parties … of the optimal flexible contract both when the parties have sharp probabilistic beliefs over the possible events in which … risk aversion, the higher the agency costs for delegation and hence the less profitable is a flexible contract versus a …
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This article deals with the optimal design of insurance contracts when the insurer faces administrative costs. If the literature provides many analyses of risk sharing with such costs, it is often assumed that these costs are linear. Furthermore, mathematical tools or initial conditions differ...
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choose and then design the contract to optimally balance the trade-off between incentives to limit the contractor's supply … cannot be easily described in - and enforced within - the contract, the procurer must use other tools to ensure successful …
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The optimal insurance problem represents a fast growing topic that explains the most efficient contract that an … insurance player may get. The classical problem investigates the ideal contract under the assumption that the underlying risk …-maker aims to identify a robust optimal contract that is not sensitive to the chosen risk distribution. We focus on Value …
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We study the design of an optimal insurance contract in which the insured maximizes her expected utility and the … crucial to rule out ex post moral hazard. We also find that the deductible is absent if and only if the contract pricing is …
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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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This paper deals with the risk of opportunism – the usual risk in economic exchanges. The breach of contract is …
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