In many countries, lenders are restricted in their access to information about borrowers' past defaults. The authors study this provision in a model of repeated borrowing and lending with moral hazard and adverse selection. They analyze its effects on borrowers' incentives and access to credit,...

Securitization is one of the most important innovations in financial markets. It is a process of converting illiquid loans that cannot be sold readily to third-party investors into liquid securities and selling them to dispersed investors. As a result, securitization improves liquidity in...

This paper analyzes the impact of labor market competition and skill-biased technical change on the structure of compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on...

We investigate the scope for supervisory activities in organizations in which information is non-verifiable and opportunism severe. A principal-supervisor-agent hierarchy is considered. Side-contracts between supervisor and agent may be reached both before and after the agent has chosen his...

Moral hazard models with hidden saving decisions are useful to study such diverse problems as unemployment insurance, income taxation, executive compensation, or human capital policies. How can we solve such models? In general, this is very difficult. Under the conditions derived in this paper,...

This study models producer protection legislation that would grant growers the right to claim damages (PPLD) if their contracts are prematurely terminated. In the absence of contracting frictions that prevent contractors from redesigning contracts to accommodate exogenous policy changes, PPLD...

This paper analyzes moral hazard in market entry competition between externally funded firms. A finite number of entrepreneurs seek to advance their promising yet loss-making startups into a profitable market. Market entry requires a breakthrough opportunity, which may be obtained at a fixed and...

It often happens that a public bail-out project ends up with ineffective spending. In our opinion, most problems relating to public spending stem from moral hazard or hidden action. Depending on the incentive scheme, the problem can be either exacerbated or reduced. In this paper, we will...

This paper explores the role of incomplete contracts when firms take into account their locations when deciding on their organizational form. For each of its activities, a firm faces the decision of whether to vertically integrate or to outsource, choosing the less costly of these two...

This paper examines a moral hazard problem where the principal observes a location signal of the agent's unobserved effort. When the agent incurs costlier effort the demand for the agent's services is ex-ante more spread out over a location measure of demand. If location outcomes are informative...