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Autor:
Patrick W. Schmitz, Daniel Müller
Publikováno v:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 184:653-669
A principal hires an agent to provide a verifiable service. Initially, the agent can exert unobservable effort to reduce his disutility from providing the service. If the agent is free to waive his right to quit, he may voluntarily sign a contract sp
Autor:
Patrick W. Schmitz
Publikováno v:
Economics Letters. 226:111103
Autor:
Patrick W. Schmitz
Publikováno v:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 182:100-112
The analysis of adverse selection problems in seller-buyer relationships has typically been based on the assumption that private information is uncertifiable, while in practice it may well be certifiable. If a buyer has certifiable private informatio
Autor:
Patrick W. Schmitz, Eva I. Hoppe
Publikováno v:
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 123:238-266
The government wants an infrastructure-based public service to be provided. First, the infrastructure has to be built; subsequently, it has to be operated. Should the government bundle the building and operating tasks in a public–private partnershi
Autor:
Patrick W Schmitz
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
A buyer wants to purchase an innovative good from a seller. Both parties are risk-neutral, and payments from the buyer to the seller must be non-negative. After the contract is signed, the seller privately observes a signal which may be informative a
Autor:
Patrick W. Schmitz
Publikováno v:
Economics Letters. 224:111012
Autor:
Patrick W. Schmitz
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
The analysis of adverse selection problems in seller-buyer relationships has typically been based on the assumption that private information is uncertifiable, while in practice it may well be certifiable. If a buyer has certifiable private informatio
Autor:
Patrick W. Schmitz, Eva I. Hoppe
Publikováno v:
Games and Economic Behavior. 109:544-564
In a laboratory experiment with 754 participants, we study the canonical one-shot moral hazard problem, comparing treatments with unobservable effort to benchmark treatments with verifiable effort. In our experiment, the players endogenously negotiat
Autor:
Patrick W. Schmitz
Publikováno v:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 144:153-165
Consider a partnership consisting of two symmetrically informed parties who may each own a share of an asset. It is ex post efficient that tomorrow the party with the larger valuation gets the asset. Yet, today the parties can make investments to enh
Autor:
Patrick W. Schmitz
Publikováno v:
Economics Letters. 159:96-99
In the Grossman–Hart–Mooreproperty rights approach to the theory of the firm, it is usually assumed that information is symmetric. Ownership matters for investment incentives, provided that investments are partly relationship-specific. We study t