Essays on Contract Design and Incentive Provision - Brossura

Hoppe-Fischer, Eva I.

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ISBN 10: 3658241322 ISBN 13: 9783658241322

Casa editrice: Springer Gabler, 2019

Riassunto

Contract theory, which emphasizes the importance of unverifiable actions and private information, has been a highly active field of research in microeconomics in the last decades. This thesis is divided into two parts. Part I consists of three chapters that study contract-theoretic models which are motivated by the classic procurement problem of a principal who wants an agent to deliver a certain good or service. In such models it is typically assumed that decision makers are interested in their own monetary payoffs only. Moreover, they have unlimited cognitive abilities and behave in a perfectly rational way. Yet, in practice people often do not behave this way. While empirical research is very difficult in contract theory, laboratory experiments have recently turned out to be an important source of data. In Part II, three experimental studies are presented that investigate contract-theoretic problems brought up in Part I.

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Eva I. Hoppe-Fischer published her work with Kölner Wissenschaftsverlag until 2018.

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Contract theory, which emphasizes the importance of unverifiable actions and private information, has been a highly active field of research in microeconomics in the last decades. This thesis is divided into two parts. Part I consists of three chapters that study contract-theoretic models which are motivated by the classic procurement problem of a principal who wants an agent to deliver a certain good or service. In such models it is typically assumed that decision makers are interested in their own monetary payoffs only. Moreover, they have unlimited cognitive abilities and behave in a perfectly rational way. Yet, in practice people often do not behave this way. While empirical research is very difficult in contract theory, laboratory experiments have recently turned out to be an important source of data. In Part II, three experimental studies are presented that investigate contract-theoretic problems brought up in Part I.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer Gabler
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3658241322
• ISBN 13: 9783658241322
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224
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