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.
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Deutsch
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Series: Working Paper Series ; No. IF38V1
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Economics of Contract: Theory
Personnel Economics: Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
- Thema
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explicit contracts
implicit contracts
separating equilibrium
substitutes
strategic
complementarity
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Gürtler, Marc
Gürtler, Oliver
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Veröffentlichung
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Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Finanzwirtschaft
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Braunschweig
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2012
- DOI
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doi:10.2139/ssrn.2031582
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- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Gürtler, Marc
- Gürtler, Oliver
- Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Finanzwirtschaft
Entstanden
- 2012