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with reflections on the future of relational contract theory and practice. …
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The present paper aims to contribute to the literature on the foundations of incomplete contracts by providing conditions under which simple delegation of authority is the solution to the complete-contracting problem of the parties. We consider a hold-up framework where both parties profit from...
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and Moore still hold. It is shown that investment incentives are guided by an additional element to standard hold … overinvestment. Although investment incentives are always positive from a social perspective, they can be negative from an individual …
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reasonably approximate real-life decision makers? behavior. Testing this theory with field data is difficult since typically …
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When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a good allocation of effort across various …
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suppose that greater transparency would enhance incentives. Therefore, it is puzzling that team production often lacks … by demonstrating that transparency can actually hurt incentives. In the presence of career concerns information on the … quality of task execution improves incentives while sustaining a cooperative team spirit. In contrast, making the identity of …
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of information to future employers and sharpen incentives. Using a simple moral hazard model, we demonstrate that …
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In many economic situations several principals contract with the same agents sequentially. Asymmetric learning about agents' abilities provides the first principal with an informational advantage and has profound implications for the design of incentive contracts. We show that the principal...
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In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in which employers may decline to pay workers while keeping their work product. First, in an audit study of employers by a blinded worker, we find that working only for good...
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We investigate whether and how social ties affect performance in teams by implementing a field experiment in which a sample of undergraduate students are randomly assigned to either teams composed by friends or teams composed by individuals not linked by friendship relationships. Students...
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