Arbeitspapier

The interaction of explicit and implicit contracts: A signaling approach

We analyze the interaction of explicit and implicit contracts in a model with selfish and fair principals. Fair principals are willing to honor implicit agreements, whereas selfish principals are not. Principals are privately informed about their types. We investigate a separating equilibrium in which principals reveal their type through the contract o er to the agent. If this equilibrium is played, explicit and implicit contracts are substitutes. Since the agent learns the principal's type, a selfish principal has to rely on explicit incentives. A fair principal, by contrast, can effectively induce implicit incentives and hence does not need to use explicit incentives. Interestingly, if a selfish principal can rely on more effective explicit incentives, a fair principal becomes more likely to be able to separate from the selfish type and, hence, to make better use of implicit incentives. In this sense, there is a strategic complementarity between explicit and implicit incentives.

Sprache
Deutsch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper Series ; No. IF38V1

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Economics of Contract: Theory
Personnel Economics: Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
Thema
explicit contracts
implicit contracts
separating equilibrium
substitutes
strategic
complementarity

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Gürtler, Marc
Gürtler, Oliver
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Finanzwirtschaft
(wo)
Braunschweig
(wann)
2012

DOI
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2031582
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

Datenpartner

Dieses Objekt wird bereitgestellt von:
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. Bei Fragen zum Objekt wenden Sie sich bitte an den Datenpartner.

Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Gürtler, Marc
  • Gürtler, Oliver
  • Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Finanzwirtschaft

Entstanden

  • 2012

Ähnliche Objekte (12)