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Optimal Incentive Contracts

Optimal Incentive Contracts is a theoretical framework in contract theory that specifies the most efficient contractual arrangement between a principal and an agent, designed to align the agent's actions with the principal's objectives under conditions of asymmetric information, risk, and moral hazard.

733

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1.1K

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565

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Multitask Principal–Agent Analyses: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership, and Job Design

Bengt Holmström, Paul Milgrom · The Journal of Law Economics and Organization · 1991 · 6.1K citations

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Rank-Order Tournaments as Optimum Labor Contracts

Edward P. Lazear, Sherwin Rosen · Journal of Political Economy · 1981 · 4.6K citations · Full text

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Incentive-Compatible Debt Contracts: The One-Period Problem

Douglas Gale, Martin Hellwig · The Review of Economic Studies · 1985 · 1.8K citations

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Auction Theory: A Guide to the Literature

Paul Klemperer · Journal of Economic Surveys · 1999 · 1.4K citations

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Relational Incentive Contracts

Jonathan Levin · American Economic Review · 2003 · 1.1K citations

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  1. PM
    Peter M. DeMarzo

    National Bureau of Economic Research, United States

    8 publications · 682 citations

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  2. DE
    David E. M. Sappington

    University of Florida, United States

    8 publications · 1.6K citations

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  3. EF
    Ernst Fehr

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    8 publications · 1.3K citations

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  4. JT
    Jean Tirole

    Institut d'Économie Industrielle, France

    8 publications · 1.7K citations

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  5. JL
    Jean‐Jacques Laffont

    Institut d'Économie Industrielle, France

    7 publications · 1.2K citations

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Institutions

565

  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    21 h-index

    37 publications

    10.3K citations

  2. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    21 h-index

    24 publications

    4.3K citations

  3. Ifo Institute for Economic Research

    Munich, Germany

    19 h-index

    32 publications

    1.6K citations

  4. IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

    Bonn, Germany

    17 h-index

    22 publications

    5.8K citations

  5. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    17 h-index

    24 publications

    2.4K citations

  6. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    17 h-index

    29 publications

    6.7K citations

  7. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    15 h-index

    20 publications

    6K citations

  8. Centre for Economic Policy Research

    London, United Kingdom

    15 h-index

    29 publications

    1.1K citations

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  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 105 publications · 3.7K citations

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  2. The RAND Journal of Economics

    38 publications · 3.6K citations

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  3. Management Science

    37 publications · 3K citations

    26

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  4. American Economic Review

    23 publications · 5.6K citations

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  5. The Review of Economic Studies

    24 publications · 5.6K citations

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