The purpose of the paper is to investigate contract renegotiation in multi-agent situations where risk averse agents negotiate a contract offer to the principal after they observed a common, unverifiable perfect signal about their actions. Renegotiation gives the agents gains from mutual...

This paper investigates optimal contracts to solve the moral hazard problem with subjective evaluations in the static environment in which the principal privately observes agents’ performances. Despite the limitations of feasible contracts that the principal can credibly offer, we show the...

In this paper we investigate principal-agent problems with moral hazard and target budgets. The latter requires that the principal fixes a total budget for wages paid to agents regardless of their outputs realized ex post. Target budgets are relevant not just because they are exogenous...