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Moral Hazard

Moral Hazard is an economic phenomenon characterized by one party taking excessive risks or altering behavior to the detriment of another party, due to asymmetric information and misaligned incentives following a prior agreement, particularly when the party acting cannot be fully monitored or held accountable.

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Moral Hazard and Observability

Bengt Holmström · The Bell Journal of Economics · 1979 · 8.5K citations

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A Mathematical Theory of Saving

Frank Plumpton Ramsey · The Economic Journal · 1928 · 5.8K citations

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The Economic Theory of Agency: The Principal's Problem.

Stephen A. Ross · American Economic Review · 1973 · 4.1K citations

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Essays in the Theory of Risk-Bearing.

Nils H. Hakansson, Kenneth J. Arrow · The Journal of Finance · 1972 · 4.1K citations

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Monitoring and Reputation: The Choice between Bank Loans and Directly Placed Debt

Douglas W. Diamond · Journal of Political Economy · 1991 · 3.4K citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. AV
    Anjan V. Thakor

    Washington University in St. Louis, United States

    20 publications · 4K citations

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  2. JE
    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Columbia University, United States

    19 publications · 3.4K citations

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  3. GD
    Georges Dionne

    HEC Montréal, Canada

    16 publications · 792 citations

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  4. RA
    Richard Arnott

    Boston College, United States

    10 publications · 877 citations

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  5. JM
    Jeroen M. Swinkels

    Washington University in St. Louis, United States

    10 publications · 438 citations

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Institutions

1.6K

  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    40 h-index

    123 publications

    16K citations

  2. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    34 h-index

    63 publications

    14.8K citations

  3. Centre for Economic Policy Research

    London, United Kingdom

    34 h-index

    115 publications

    10.7K citations

  4. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    32 h-index

    62 publications

    13.7K citations

  5. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    30 h-index

    58 publications

    6.5K citations

  6. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    27 h-index

    53 publications

    4.1K citations

  7. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    27 h-index

    54 publications

    8.4K citations

  8. Ifo Institute for Economic Research

    Munich, Germany

    26 h-index

    63 publications

    2K citations

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  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 366 publications · 13K citations

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  2. The Journal of Finance

    52 publications · 13.2K citations

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  3. American Economic Review

    42 publications · 12.8K citations

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  4. Journal of Financial Economics

    35 publications · 10.1K citations

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  5. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    Repository · 94 publications · 3K citations

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