1 Agency Theory
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This note considers the simplest possible organization: one boss (or “Principal”) and one worker (or “Agent”). One of the earliest applications of this Principal-Agent model was to sharecropping, where the landowner was the Principal and the tenant farmer the Agent, but in this course we will typically talk about more familiar organization structures. For example, we might consider a firm’s shareholders to be the Principal and the CEO to be the Agent. One can also enrich the model to analyze a chain of command (i.e., a Principal, a Supervisor, and an Agent), or one Principal and many Agents, or other steps towards a full-fledged organization tree.
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