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Wealth constraint and contractual arrangements

We examine how a project owner optimally selects a project operator and motivates him to deliver an unobservable effort when potential operators are wealth constrained. We show that, when potential operators' abilities are common knowledge, an operator's share of realized profit can be inc...

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Published in:The Canadian journal of economics 2009-02, Vol.42 (1), p.226-243
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subjects Adverse selection
Choice of technology
Contract incentives
Contracts
D440
D820
Economic resources
Economic theory
Franchise agreements
L140
Moral hazard models
Principal-agent theory
Production technology
Profit
Project management
Studies
Uniformity
Wealth
title Wealth constraint and contractual arrangements
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