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We consider a repeated duopoly game where each firm privately chooses its investment in quality, and realized quality is a noisy indicator of the firm's investment. We focus on dynamic reputation equilibria, whereby consumers "discipline" a firm by switching to its rival in the case that the...
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-agent relationship. OJS is found to constitute a source of agency costs because efficient search incentives require that the agent …
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We consider a repeated duopoly game where each firm privately chooses its investment in quality, and realized quality is a noisy indicator of the firm’s investment. We focus on dynamic reputation equilibria, whereby consumers ‘discipline’ a firm by switching to its rival in the case that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005020643
Against the background of growing media interest in professional soccer, this paper proposes a moral hazard model with costly state verification to explain how rule changes affecting the reward scheme of team performance impact on the success of managerial change. As has been shown recently...
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alternative to reputational concerns that produces stable incentives. We discuss the implications of this mechanism for …
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dynamic incentives. In our model, a principal wants an agent to complete a project. The agent undertakes unobservable effort … declining over time, in order to give the agent incentives to exert effort. The long-run levels of the value and wage depend on …
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design I prove in the paper, that government - as principal - is only capable of applying perverse incentives towards the …
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dynamic incentives. In our model, a principal wants an agent to complete a project. The agent undertakes unobservable effort …, the contract involves the agent’s value and wage declining over time, in order to give the agent incentives to exert …
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This paper studies repeated games where the time of repetitions of the stage game is not known or controlled by the players. Many economic situations of interest where players repeatedly interact share this feature, players do not know exactly when is the next time they will be called to play...
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