This paper analyzes optimal contracting when an agent has private information before contracting and exerts hidden effort that stochastically affects the output. Additionally, the contract is constrained to satisfy the agentʼs ex post participation. We highlight three features of this model....

La loi limite la responsabilité des salariés même lorsque ces derniers disposent de suffisamment de fonds propres pour supporter une punition de la part de leur employeur en cas de sinistre grevant la production. Un modèle d'agence généralisée est analysé afin de montrer que ce type de...

This paper investigates to which extent the optimal centralized mechanism as defined by the Revelation Principle may optimally prescribe to follow the agent's recommendation. We define two sub-cases, called delegation and authority, being parts of the consideredcentralized organization, a...

<marquage typemarq="gras"/> Although legal restrictions limiting the workers? liability are made to increase their welfare, we show that they may lead to a perverse effect when more productive workers cross subsidize less productive workers. A generalized agency model is analyzed and used to show that exonerating a...

<marquage typemarq="gras"/> In this paper, we design the optimal procurement mechanisms when bidders are privately informed on efficiency and on observable but neither verifiable nor contractible quality. We show that most of the optimal procurement institutions are mixed procedure implying both separation and pooling....