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I show that stochastic contracts generate powerful incentives when agents suffer from probability distortion. When …
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This paper analyzes a multi-task agency relationship with a risk-neutral and financially constraint agent. The agent's performance evaluation is incongruent, i.e. it does not reflect his contribution to firm value, and thus motivates an inefficient effort allocation across tasks. This paper...
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This paper analyzes a multi-task agency model with a risk-neutral and financially constrained agent. The agent's performance evaluation is thereby incongruent, i.e. it does not perfectly reflect the relative contribution of the agent's multi-dimensional effort to firm's profit. This paper...
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under which delegation changes the scope of peer sanction and thus influences the implicit incentives generated by the … information regarding the effient decision. We show that implicit incentives under delegation are strongest in diverse teams and …
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-agent relationships by improving the trade-off between insurance and incentives in the design of explicit contracts. In dynamic settings …, however, there may be implicit as well as explicit incentives, for example, managerial career concerns and the ratchet effect … in regulation. We show that the dynamic effects of CPI on implicit incentives can either reinforce or oppose the familiar …
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In this article, we deal with the topic of intentional information spillover using a model in which both informational- and payoff-externalities are present and the timing of agents' actions is endogenous. In this model, three players, who are heterogeneous in the quality of their information,...
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divisions to replace high incentive pay to the division heads by incentives based on private benefits of control. In that …
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There is a debate in the literature as to whether employee selection is a substitute or complement to incentive contracting. We argue that incentive contracts and selection can be both complements and substitutes conditional on the contracting difficulty faced by the firm. We examine these...
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This note provides a general concept of how the conflict of interest between credit rating agencies and financial entities that hire them to rate issues can be severed. The concept stresses addressing the conflict with minimal government regulation. Only a skeleton concept is offered -- the goal...
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subordinate then is affected by the outcome of the task and he therefore has strong incentives to contribute to its success. There …
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