Learning, termination, and payout policy in dynamic incentive contracts

PM DeMarzo, Y Sannikov - The Review of Economic Studies, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We study a principal–agent setting in which both sides learn about future profitability from
output, and the project can be abandoned/terminated if profitability is too low. With learning …

Optimal CEO turnover

C Wang, Y Yang - Journal of Economic Theory, 2022 - Elsevier
We study a dynamic principal-agent/firm-CEO relationship that is subject simultaneously to
moral hazard, limited commitment, and shocks to the CEO's market value. Termination is …

Robust contracts with one-sided commitment

Y Niu, J Yang, Z Zou - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2020 - Elsevier
We consider a robust contract with limited commitment in continuous time, in which the
principal (firm) is ambiguity averse and seeks robust decisions. First, we find the existence of …

A Job Ladder Model of Executive Compensation

B Hu - Review of Economic Dynamics, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper examines the impact of managerial labor market competition on executive
incentive contracts. I develop a dynamic contracting model that incorporates moral hazard …

Dynamic compensation under uncertainty shocks and limited commitment

FZ Feng - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2021 - cambridge.org
This article studies dynamic compensation and risk management under cash-flow volatility
shocks. The optimal contract depends critically on firms' ability to make good on promised …

Dynamic contracts with random monitoring

A Barbos - Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
In contractual relationships where the agent executes numerous independent tasks over the
lifetime of the contract, it is often infeasible to evaluate his performance on all tasks that he is …

Self‐directed productivity investment on the job

AM Marino - Managerial and Decision Economics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper considers a hidden action agency model in which an agent can be incentivized
to simultaneously work and exert effort to invest in human capital or process innovation so …

Optimal contracts with reflection

B Grochulski, Y Zhang - 2016 - papers.ssrn.com
In this paper, we show that whenever the agent's outside option is nonzero, the optimal
contract in the continuous-time principal-agent model of Sannikov (2008) is reflective at the …

Optimal long-term contracts with disability insurance under limited commitment

KJ Choi, J Jeon, HS Lee, HC Lin - Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
We study an optimal long-term labor contract that provides disability insurance benefits
under two frictions: the agent cannot commit to a long-term contract and the disability shock …

Opintolainahyvityksen kannustinvaikutukset

A Järvinen - 2022 - jyx.jyu.fi
Suomalaisten korkeakouluopiskelijoiden voidaan havaita valmistuvan tutkinnostaan
keskimäärin vanhempina verrattuna muihin Pohjoismaihin tai OECD-maiden keskiarvoon …