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Limited liability and non-responsiveness in moral hazard and adverse selection problems

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Previous issue date: 2016-03-21 / This work analyses the optimal menu of contracts offered by a risk neutral principal to a risk averse agent under moral hazard, adverse selection and limited liability. There are two output levels, whose probability of occurrence are given by agent’s private information choice of effort. The agent’s cost of effort is also private information. First, we show that without assumptions on the cost function, it is not possible to guarantee that the optimal contract menu is simple, when the agent is strictly risk averse. Then, we provide sufficient conditions over the cost function under which it is optimal to offer a single contract, independently of agent’s risk aversion. Our full-pooling cases are caused by non-responsiveness, which is induced by the high cost of enforcing higher effort levels. Also, we show that limited liability generates non-responsiveness.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:bibliotecadigital.fgv.br:10438/16532
Date21 March 2016
CreatorsPires, Henrique Brasiliense de Castro
ContributorsCamargo, Bráz Ministério de, Escobar, Andres, Escolas::EPGE, FGV, Moreira, Humberto Ataíde
Source SetsIBICT Brazilian ETDs
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Sourcereponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, instname:Fundação Getulio Vargas, instacron:FGV
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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