| Registro completo |
| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
INCENTIVES AND STANDARDS IN AGENCY CONTRACTS
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| Autores: |
Chambers, Robert G.
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| Data: |
2000-12-28
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| Ano: |
2000
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| Palavras-chave: |
Incentives
Multi-tasking
Agency
Risk complementarity
Risk substitutability
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
Risk and Uncertainty
D82
L23
L50
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| Resumo: |
This paper studies the structure of state-contingent contracts in the presence of moral hazard and multi-tasking. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the presence of multi-tasking to lead to fixed payments instead of incentive schemes are identified. It is shown that the primary determinant of whether multi-tasking leads to higher or lower powered incentives is the role that noncontractible outputs play in helping the agent deal with the production risk associated with the observable and contractible outputs. When the noncontractible outputs are socially undesirable and risk substitutes, standards are never optimal. If the noncontractible outputs are socially desirable, standards are never optimal if the noncontractible outputs play a risk-complementary role.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
2355
http://purl.umn.edu/28605
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
University of Maryland>Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics>Working Papers
Working Paper WP 00-18
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| Formato: |
33
application/pdf
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