Incentives for Research Agents: Optimal Contracts and Implementation
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Keywords
Dynamic Contract; Repeated Moral Hazard; Multi-agent Incentive; R&D; Employee Compensation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
- J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
- L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
- O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2014-11-28 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-HRM-2014-11-28 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-INO-2014-11-28 (Innovation)
- NEP-KNM-2014-11-28 (Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy)
- NEP-PPM-2014-11-28 (Project, Program and Portfolio Management)
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