Arbeitspapier

Optimal Incentives without Expected Utility

This paper investigates the optimal design of incentives when agents distort probabilities. We show that the type of probability distortion displayed by the agent and its degree determine whether an incentivecompatible contract can be implemented, the strength of the incentives included in the optimal contract, and the location of incentives on the output space. Our framework demonstrates that incorporating descriptively-valid theories of risk in a principal-agent setting leads to incentive contracts that are typically observed in practice such as salaries, lump-sum bonuses, and high-performance commissions.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. TI 2022-090/I

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Economics of Contract: Theory
Labor Contracts
Personnel Economics: Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
Thema
Contracts
Probability Weighting
Incentives
Mechanism Design
Rank-Dependent Utility.

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
González-Jiménez, Víctor
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Tinbergen Institute
(wo)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(wann)
2022

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • González-Jiménez, Víctor
  • Tinbergen Institute

Entstanden

  • 2022

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