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with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a negative shock is sufficiently incomplete, then … standard functional formrestrictions ensure that individual objective functions are optimized by an effort and insurance … combination that is unique and satisfies first- and second-order conditions. Modeling insurance incompleteness in terms of costly …
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with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a negative shock is sufficiently incomplete, then … standard functional form restrictions ensure that individual objective functions are optimized by an effort and insurance … combination that is unique and satisfies first- and second-order conditions. Modeling insurance incompleteness in terms of costly …
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contracts to crowd out implicit insurance, even though the latter yields higher welfare.Integrating the principal-agent and …
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We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non …-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private … of insurance on unobservable effort and saving choices as well as the relative cost of public and private insurance …
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Several empirical findings have challenged the traditional view on the trade-off between risk and incentives. By combining risk aversion and limited liability in a standard principal-agent model the empiri- cal puzzle on the positive relationship between risk and incentives can be explained....
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function change. Increasing prudence alone will induce higher savings only if, for certain combinations of the interest rate …
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We examine a situation where efforts on different tasks positively affect production but are not separately verifiable and where the manager (principal) and the worker (agent) have different ideas about how production should be carried out: agents prefer a less efficient way of production. We...
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We examine a situation where efforts on different tasks positively affect production but are not separately verifiable and where the manager (principal) and the worker (agent) have different ideas about how production should be carried out: agents prefer a less efficient way of production. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267331
In an overlapping generations maximization framework with consumers, whose information on uncertain future income realizations is front loaded, a closed form aggregate consumption function with CRRA preferences is derived. To have a closed form solution we assume that consumers solve their...
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We study the problem of an investor that buys an equity stake in an entrepreneurial venture, under the assumption that the former cannot monitor the latter's operations. The dynamics implied by the optimal incentive scheme is rich and quite different from that induced by other models of repeated...
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