Incentives in Common Agency

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  • Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné
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Reproduction partielle permise avec citation du document source, incluant la notice ©. Short sections may be quoted without explicit permission, if full credit, including © notice, is given to the source. Ce document est publié dans l'intention de rendre accessibles les résultats préliminaires de la recherche effectuée au CIRANO, afin de susciter des échanges et des suggestions. Les idées et les opinions émises sont sous l'unique responsabilité des auteurs, et ne représentent pas nécessairement les positions du CIRANO ou de ses partenaires. This paper presents preliminary research carried out at CIRANO and aims at encouraging discussion and comment. The observations and viewpoints expressed are the sole responsibility of the authors. They do not necessarily represent positions of CIRANO or its partners. Résumé / Abstract Nous étudions les situations où (1) un agent doit distribuer ses efforts (qui ne peuvent être observés par des tiers) sur différentes tâches et où (2) plusieurs parties prenantes ont des points de vue divergents quant à la distribution la plus souhaitable. La théorie économique prédit actuellement que chacun de ces ingrédients – la présence de tâches multiples et la concurrence entre parties prenantes-suffit à lui seul à abaisser considérablement la puissance des incitations. Ce papier propose néanmoins un remède simple, via l'utilisation d'audits contingents. Le mécanisme proposé rendrait en effet les tâches complémentaires du point de vue de l'agent ; en même temps, les parties prenantes parviendraient à se coordonner pour le mettre en oeuvre, à condition que l'aversion au risque de l'agent décroisse suffisamment vite avec l'augmentation de sa richesse. Cette coordination pourrait par ailleurs se réaliser d'une manière «libérale», en ce sens que certaines parties prenantes n'auraient besoin de contrôler que les tâches les intéressant directement. Certaines utilisations possibles du mécanisme pour les régimes de conformité des entreprises, l'organisation des gouvernements, et le management de l'innovation sont brièvement esquissées., nous trouvons des changements dans la dynamique et dans la mémoire longue de la volatilité. This paper considers situations where an agent must allocate his nonobservable effort among several tasks and where several principals hold diverging viewpoints on what the best allocation should be. Economic theory currently sees each of these features as major obstacles to raising the strength of an agent's incentives. This paper proposes a simple scheme-based on contingent monitoring-that can nevertheless mitigate both of these obstacles simultaneously. Under this scheme, if the agent's absolute risk aversion decreases fast enough with respect …

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تاریخ انتشار 2002