Robust Incentives for Teams

成果类型:
Article
署名作者:
Dai, Tianjiao; Toikka, Juuso
署名单位:
University of Pennsylvania
刊物名称:
ECONOMETRICA
ISSN/ISSBN:
0012-9682
DOI:
10.3982/ECTA16280
发表日期:
2022
页码:
1583-1613
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摘要:
We show that demanding team incentives to be robust to nonquantifiable uncertainty about the game played by the agents leads to contracts that align the agents' interests. Such contracts have a natural interpretation as team-based compensation. Under budget balance they reduce to linear contracts, thus identifying profit-sharing, or equity, as an optimal contract absent a sink or a source of funds. A linear contract also gives the best profit guarantee to an outside residual claimant. These contracts still suffer from the free-rider problem, but a positive guarantee obtains if and only if the technology known to the contract designer is sufficiently productive.
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