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and the firm can base its incentive payments on good information. Competition, however, may allow themarket and explicit …
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information transmission is possible with unmediated communication. …
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We examine the implementation of efficient decisions about accepting a special order with asymmetric information by … product. Each division manager has private information about the divisional parameters (production costs and profit margin … they indicate the true information in the accounting stage. If they choose to report untruthfully then they suffer a loss …
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than in the stable environment. This finding is in line with standard agency theory and contrasts a distinct element of … expectancy theory; noisier performance measures do not lower work motivation. …
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We study interfirm price competition in the presence of horizontal and vertical intrafirm conflicts in each firm. Intrafirm conflicts are captured by a principal-agent framework with firms employing more than one agent and implementing a tournament incentive scheme. The principals offer premium...
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This paper analyses optimal contracts in a principal-agent model where the agent is intrinsically motivated at the outset and there is an endogenous relationship between the structure of incentive payments and intrinsic motivation (crowding effects). The analysis shows that crowding effects have...
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In a paper in this journal, Schnabel and Roumi (1989) assert that if uninsured debt is risky, a levered firm takes a casualty insurance with a positive safety loading if, and only if, the amount of debt is sufficiently high. This note shows that, in marked contrast to this assertion, the correct...
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The paper provides novel insights on the effect of a firm's risk management objective on the optimal design of risk transfer instruments. I analyze the interrelation between the structure of the optimal insurance contract and the firm's objective to minimize the required equity it has to hold to...
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This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work. …
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parties under conditions of incomplete and asymmetric information are analysed with the help of the system theory and the … Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie herausgearbeitet und Handlungsempfehlungen für das Schnittstellenmanagement aufgezeigt. … principal agent theory. Recommendations for the management of branded entertainment productions are given, while instruments …
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