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"Standard principal-agent theory with one broker and one seller suggests that percentage commission structure fails to offer adequate incentives to evoke optimal effort on the part of the broker. This is due to the fact that a percentage contract only offers the broker a portion of any benefits...

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This note studies how mortgage borrowers with different levels of default risk would self-select between different loan-to-value ratios. It shows that for large default costs there exists a separating equilibrium in which low-risk borrowers choose bigger loan amounts than high-risk borrowers....

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