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Moral hazard in ecology
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We consider a principal-agent model with moral hazard where the agent’s knowledge about the performance measure is ambiguous and he is averse towards ambiguity. We show that the principal may optimally provide no incentives or contract only on a subset of all informative performance measures. That is, the Informativeness Principle does not hold in our model. These results stand in stark contras...
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In this paper, I study the e¤ects of overcon dence on incentive contracts in a moral-hazard framework in which principal and agent knowingly hold asymmetric beliefs regarding the probability of success of their enterprise. Agent overcon dence can have conicting e¤ects on the equilibrium contract. On the one hand, an overcon dent agent disproportionately values successcontingent payments, and t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2296-701X
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00003