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Should You Allow Your Agent to Become Your Competitor? On Non-Compete Agreements in Employment Contracts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We discuss a principal-agent model in which the principal has the opportunity to include a non-compete agreement in the employment contract. We show that not imposing such an agreement can be beneficial for the principal as the possibility to leave the ...
Kräkel, Matthias, Sliwka, Dirk
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On the trail of the intangible: a theoretical and empirical investigation of innovations and patents in Germany in the years 2006-2019

open access: yesInternational Entrepreneurship Review, 2022
Objective: We want to better understand what incentives firms to pursue innovations. For this purpose, we set up a new intertemporal principal-agent model.
Friedrich L. Sell
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamic Principal-Agent Models [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
This paper contributes to the theoretical and numerical analysis of discrete time dynamic principal-agent problems with continuous choice sets. We first provide a new and simplified proof for the recursive reformulation of the sequential dynamic principal-agent relationship.
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Strict liability in a principal-agent model [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Review of Law and Economics, 1990
Previous analytical work examining strict liability has generally ignored the existence of moral hazard problems within the firm. In this work, the firm has been implicitly modeled as a single individual (for example, Shave11 [1980, 19821, Landes and Posner [ 19811, Polinsky [1980], Polinsky and Rogerson [1983], and Mantel1 [1984]).’ However, it is ...
Newman, Harry A., Wright, David W.
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A Solvable Dynamic Principal-Agent Model with Linear Marginal Productivity

open access: yesDiscrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2018
We study how to design an optimal contract which provides incentives for agent to put forth the desired effort in a continuous time dynamic moral hazard model with linear marginal productivity.
Bing Liu, Zheng Yin, Chong Lai
doaj   +1 more source

Anti-Trafficking Interventions in Nigeria and the Principal-Agent Aid Model

open access: yesAnti-Trafficking Review, 2014
Following the rising profile of trafficking in persons globally and Nigeria’s position as a critical country in the African region, significant—though insufficient and poorly spent—funding has been deployed towards tackling the problem.
Victoria Ijeoma Nwogu
doaj   +1 more source

The role of the agent's outside options in principal-agent relationships [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
We consider a principal-agent model of adverse selection where, in order to trade with the principal, the agent must undertake a relationship-specific investment which affects his outside option to trade, i.e.
A. Darwiche   +12 more
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The influence of common property rights on forest management policy: a case study in Sardinia region, Italy

open access: yesMetsanduslikud Uurimused, 2012
The property rights and the type of ownership (private owners, public domain and commons) are two fundamental concepts in relationship to the local development and to the social and environmental sustainability.
Paletto Alessandro   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Alternative Method to Resolve the Principal–Principal Conflict—A New Perspective Based on Contract Theory and Negotiation

open access: yesMathematics, 2023
Liquidated damages mechanisms have been analyzed from a legal perspective and applied to real-world contracts. Due to the lack of application of LDs to common agency theory, this research explores whether the liquidated damages mechanism can resolve ...
Yuxun Zhou   +3 more
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Strategies in the principal-agent model [PDF]

open access: yesEconomic Theory, 2012
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RAIMONDO, ROBERTO, Mirrlees, J.
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