scholarly journals Effects of Moral Hazard and Private Information on Investment Timing: An Auction Model

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joril Maeland
Keyword(s):  
Moral Hazard ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Investment Timing ◽  
Auction Model

scholarly journals When Salespeople Manage Customer Relationships: Multidimensional Incentives and Private Information

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 749-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minkyung Kim ◽  
K. Sudhir ◽  
Kosuke Uetake ◽  
Rodrigo Canales
Keyword(s):  
Moral Hazard ◽  
Adverse Selection ◽  
Customer Relationship Management ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Relationship Management ◽  
Selection Effect ◽  
Sales Performance ◽  
Customer Relationships ◽  
Customer Relationship

At many firms, incentivized salespeople with private information about customers are responsible for customer relationship management. Although incentives motivate sales performance, private information can induce moral hazard by salespeople to gain compensation at the expense of the firm. The authors investigate the sales performance–moral hazard trade-off in response to multidimensional performance (acquisition and maintenance) incentives in the presence of private information. Using unique panel data on customer loan acquisition and repayments linked to salespeople from a microfinance bank, the authors detect evidence of salesperson private information. Acquisition incentives induce salesperson moral hazard, leading to adverse customer selection, but maintenance incentives moderate it as salespeople recognize the negative effects of acquiring low-quality customers on future payoffs. Critically, without the moderating effect of maintenance incentives, the adverse selection effect of acquisition incentives overwhelms the sales-enhancing effects, clarifying the importance of multidimensional incentives for customer relationship management. Reducing private information (through job transfers) hurts customer maintenance but has greater impact on productivity by moderating adverse selection at acquisition. This article also contributes to the recent literature on detecting and disentangling customer adverse selection and customer moral hazard (defaults) with a new identification strategy that exploits the time-varying effects of salesperson incentives.

scholarly journals The Incentive Model in Supply Chain with Trade Credit and Default Risk

Complexity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Hong Cheng ◽  
Yingsheng Su ◽  
Jinjiang Yan ◽  
Xianyu Wang ◽  
Mingyang Li
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Asymmetric Information ◽  
Moral Hazard ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Default Risk ◽  
Trade Credit ◽  
Uncertain Demand ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Incentive Contract ◽  
Risk Neutral

Trade credit is widely used for its advantages. However, trade credit also brings default risk to the manufacturer due to the uncertain demand. And moral hazard may aggravate the default risk. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of moral hazard in trade credit and explore incentive contract under uncertain demand and asymmetric information. We consider a two-echelon supply chain consisting of a risk-neutral retailer ordering a single product from a risk-neutral manufacturer. Market demand is stochastic and is influenced by retailer’s sales effort which is his private information. Incentive theory is used to develop the principal-agent model and get the incentive contract from the manufacturer’s perspective. Results show that the retailer will reduce his effort level to get more profit and the manufacturer’s profit will be reduced, in the case of asymmetric information. Facing this result, the manufacturer will reduce the order quantity in incentive contract to lessen his losses. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate all these theoretical results and to draw managerial insights.

Why does bank screening matter? Private information and publicly traded securities

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 478-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin Harold Neave
Keyword(s):  
Moral Hazard ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Equilibrium Model ◽  
Profit Maximization ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Equilibrium Pricing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Large Market

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use an equilibrium model to identify the public and private informational requirements for equilibrium pricing and shows that unless these informational requirements are met, skin-in-the-game policies will not be fully effective against moral hazard for banks with relatively large market share. Selling securitizations with recourse can be. Design/methodology/approach The single-period model shows equilibrium prices depend on both public and private information, the latter produced as banks screen loans. If bank has a sufficiently large market share, it can profit by omitting the screening unless investors can detect the change. The author derives the profit function for not screening, shows that a skin-in-the-game policy cannot fully offset its incentives, and proposes a sale with recourse policy that can. Findings To value securitizations correctly, investors require both publicly and privately available information. If investors cannot monitor banks closely, correct pricing can be frustrated by profit maximization incentives, since banks with large market shares can profit from not screening. Skin-in-the-game policies cannot fully offset these incentives. Research limitations/implications The equilibrium model identifies the public and private informational requirements for equilibrium pricing and shows that unless these informational requirements are met, skin-in-the-game policies will not be fully effective for banks with relatively large market share. Selling securitizations with recourse can be more fully effective. Practical implications If it is difficult for investors to obtain private information, skin-in-the-game policies are not provide fully effective remedies against moral hazard. Sales with recourse policies offer promise because they are easy for investors to understand and difficult to evade. Social implications Trading on the basis of private information can create perverse incentives, and appropriate corrective policies can help offset them. Originality/value The general equilibrium methodology, the findings of incentives to avoid screening, the flaws with skin-in-the-game policies, and the proposal for sale with recourse are all new.

scholarly journals Optimal unemployment insurance with monitoring

10.3982/qe564 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 693-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ofer Setty
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Moral Hazard ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Unemployment Benefits ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
The Government ◽  
Monitoring Precision ◽  
Period Model

I model job‐search monitoring in the optimal unemployment insurance framework, in which job‐search effort is the worker's private information. In the model, monitoring provides costly information upon which the government conditions unemployment benefits. Using a simple one‐period model with two effort levels, I show analytically that the monitoring precision increases and the utility spread decreases if and only if the inverse of the worker's utility in consumption has a convex derivative. The quantitative analysis that follows extends the model by allowing a continuous effort and separations from employment. That analysis highlights two conflicting economic forces affecting the optimal precision of monitoring with respect to the generosity of the welfare system: higher promised utility is associated not only with a higher cost of moral hazard, but also with lower effort and lower value of employment. The result is an inverse U‐shaped precision profile with respect to promised utility.

scholarly journals Investment Timing and Incentive Costs*

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 309-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Gryglewicz ◽  
Barney Hartman-Glaser
Keyword(s):  
Moral Hazard ◽  
Real Option ◽  
Natural Source ◽  
Investment Timing ◽  
Editorial Decision ◽  
Incremental Form ◽  
The Cost

Abstract We analyze how the costs of smoothly adjusting capital, such as incentive costs, affect investment timing. In our model, the owner of a firm holds a real option to increase a lumpy form of capital and can also smoothly adjust an incremental form of capital. Increasing the cost of incremental capital can delay or accelerate investment in lumpy capital. Incentive costs due to moral hazard are a natural source of costs for the accumulation of incremental capital. When moral hazard is severe, delaying investment in lumpy capital is costly, and overinvesting relative to the first-best case is optimal. Received January 24, 2017; editorial decision March 15, 2019 by Editor Itay Goldstein.

Mechanism Design for R&D Outsourcing with Double-Sided Moral Hazard and Double-Sided Adverse Selection

2011 ◽  
Vol 204-210 ◽  
pp. 1569-1574
Author(s):  
Xu Ding ◽  
Wei Dong Meng ◽  
Bo Huang ◽  
Feng Ming Tao
Keyword(s):  
Moral Hazard ◽  
Mechanism Design ◽  
Adverse Selection ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Incentive Mechanism ◽  
Profit Sharing ◽  
Transfer Payment

It is studied that how to use profit sharing arrangement as an incentive mechanism to stimulate both parties of R&D outsourcing to reveal their private information and commit enough R&D resources or efforts. First, it is proved that the double-sided moral hazard in R&D outsourcing can not be totally prevented under traditional profit-sharing arrangement, namely, fixed, proportional or mixed profit-sharing arrangement. And a new mixed profit sharing arrangement is proposed, which is composed of a fixed transfer payment and allocation proportion, and proved to be able to prevent the double-sided moral hazard, and motivate both parties to reveal their private information and commit enough efforts.

A Simple Model of Corporate Fiduciary Duties: With an Application to Corporate Compliance

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Bunting
Keyword(s):  
Simple Model ◽  
Moral Hazard ◽  
Adverse Selection ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Duty Of Care ◽  
Court System ◽  
Corporate Compliance ◽  
Corporate Loyalty ◽  
Audit Technology

Abstract This article models the duty of care as a response to moral hazard where the principal seeks to induce effort that is costly to the agent and unobservable by the principal. The duty of loyalty, by contrast, is modeled as a response to adverse selection where the principal seeks truthful disclosure of private information held by the agent. This model of corporate loyalty differs importantly with standard adverse selection models, however, in that the principal cannot use available contracting variables as a screening mechanism to ensure honest disclosure and must rely upon the use of an external third-party audit technology, such as the court system. This article extends the model to the issue of corporate compliance and argues that the optimal judicial approach would define the duty to monitor as a subset of due care – and not loyalty – but hold that the usual legal protections provided for due care violations no longer apply.

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