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-perceptions and thereby generate costs of conflict for the principal. We identify conditions for a positive welfare effect of … increasing costs of conflict or increasing sensitivity to ego-threats, and a negative welfare effect of a more informative …
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work/pass is public, his effort is his private information. The optimal contract-pair which takes advantage of the dynamic … nature of the interaction is characterized. It is shown that as the length of the contract increases, the expected transfer …
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I examine incentive contracting with an agent who disagrees with the principal and creates organizational frictions …
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's type. We find that the form of the optimal contract depends on the job characteristics and the distribution of employees …
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optimal long-term contract between principal and agent. Monitoring adds value by allowing the principal to reduce the …
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We investigate job design problems in relational contracting environments with multitasking and an aggregated and …
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I study a continuous time principal-agent model in which an unknown parameter and the agent's hidden effort affect the distribution of observable outcomes. The principal and the agent learn about the parameter by observing past outcomes. The agent's current effort has an implicit long-term...
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generate profits for the firm varies stochastically over time. The optimal contract is obtained as the solution to a dynamic …-neutral, the optimal contract can often be implemented with a simple pay package that is linear in the firm's profits. Furthermore …
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faces moral hazard with respect to the effort and risk choices of the portfolio manager. The employment contract promises … appropriate choice of benchmark it is always optimal to include a bonus incentive fee in the contract. We derive the conditions …
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sensitivity of consumption-to-output that is dictated by the optimal contract. Heterogeneity in the structure of firm uncertainty … implies that some firms are able to implement the optimal contract with very simple schemes that do not include options …
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