Optimal Incentive Contracts With Bonus Caps.

This article investigates contracts between two risk‐neutral parties with bounded bonus payments. If the available signal about the agent's behavior satisfies a novel condition, the monotone likelihood ratio transformation property, the optimal contract takes a simple form irrespective of whether th...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:RAND Journal of Economics (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 55 - 74
Autores principales: Chi, Chang Koo, Olsen, Trond E.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Spring2025
Materias:
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=183913524&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: ssf
    uiTerm: 183913524
    longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        07416261
        56RJ
      jtl: RAND Journal of Economics (Wiley-Blackwell)
      issn: 07416261
      maglogo: Y
    pubinfo:
      dt: Spring2025
      vid: 56
      iid: 1
      pid: 480
      pub: Wiley-Blackwell
    artinfo:
      ui:
        183913524
        10.1111/1756-2171.12491
      ppf: 55
      ppct: 19
      formats:
        fmt:
          – @attributes:
              type: T
          – @attributes:
              type: C
          – @attributes:
              type: P
              size: 728KB
      tig:
        atl: Optimal Incentive Contracts With Bonus Caps.
      aug:
        au:
          Chi, Chang Koo
          Olsen, Trond E.
        affil:
          School of Economics, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
          Department of Business and Management Science, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway
      su:
        Contracts
        Law enforcement
        Signals & signaling
        Payment
      sug:
        subj:
          Contracts
          Law enforcement
          Signals & signaling
          Police Protection
          Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities
          Payment
      keyword:
        bonus caps
        incentive contracts
        informativeness criterion
        bonus caps
        incentive contracts
        informativeness criterion
      ab: This article investigates contracts between two risk‐neutral parties with bounded bonus payments. If the available signal about the agent's behavior satisfies a novel condition, the monotone likelihood ratio transformation property, the optimal contract takes a simple form irrespective of whether the first‐order approach (FOA) is valid or not. The contract rewards the agent the maximum bonus if the signal's likelihood ratio exceeds a threshold, which in contrast to the FOA contract is not necessarily zero. We next derive a condition for a signal to enhance the efficiency of a contract. Applications in relational contracting and law enforcement illustrate our findings.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: N
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N