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Artigo científico

Limited liability and non-responsiveness in agency models

Pires, Henrique Brasiliense de Castro; Moreira, Humberto Ataíde

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This paper analyzes the optimal menu of contracts offered by a risk neutral principal to a risk averse agent under moral hazard, adverse selection and limited liability. We show that a limited liability constraint causes pooling of the most efficient agent types. We also find sufficient conditions under which full-pooling is optimal, regardless of agent‘s risk aversion or type distribution. Our model suggests that offering a single contract is often optimal in environments with moral hazard, adverse selection and in which agents face a limited liability constraint.

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Tipo
Artigo científico
Ano
2019
Instituição
American Economic Journal, Jan., 2019
Idioma
Português
Acesso
Não informado
Identificador
oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/31253

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