In this paper, we study the principal-agent problem. It is well known that in continuous-time, it is possible to prove the existence of an equilibrium <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$ (u^{*},S^{*})$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> in a considerably general setting, and however little is known about the strategies themselves. Our goal is to present a...</equationsource></inlineequation>

Purpose – The authors aim to analyze actual practice in industry with respect to the use, choice, and effectiveness of four types of incentives, cash, prepaid cards, travel, and merchandise. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a survey of 170 practicing incentive design managers....

For the standard specification of the utilitarian optimal income tax problem with hidden characteristics, the paper shows that randomized tax schemes are undesirable if preferences exhibit a property of weakly decreasing risk aversion according to the multidimensional risk aversion concept of...

For the standard specification of the utilitarian optimal income tax problem with hidden characteristics, the paper shows that randomized tax schemes are undesirable if preferences exhibit a property of weakly decreasing risk aversion according to the multidimensional risk aversion concept of...