We analyze the equilibrium consequences of these features in a model with optimal dynamic contracting. Bartel, patrick bolton, wouter dessein, frank edwards, larry glosten, geoffrey heal, gur huberman. The main objective of economic research is its ability to explain how we can most optimally achieve the highest standard of living. You can also view the top 50 ebooks or last 10 added ebooks list. On incentives and control in organizations, chapter ii. But economics is different from these other social sciences, because of what economists study and how they study it. We thank wouter dessein, denis hilton, canice prendergast, armin schmutzler, lucy white, two referees.
Organizations with powerhungry agents wouter dessein and richard holden january 28, 2019 abstract we analyze a model of hierarchies in organizations where neither decisions themselves nor the delegation of decisions are contractible, and where powerhungry agents derive a private bene. The impact of incomplete contracts on economics hardcover. This book can also be appropriate for all readers in economics. Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Organization and inequality in a knowledge economy princeton. After having completed several introductory financial and classical economics courses, i came to realize that much of the material i had studied had a builtin presumption that the tenets should be taken at facevalue. The online library of liberty a project of liberty fund, inc. Wouter dessein dessein, wouter, authority and communication in organizations, 2000, university of brussels mimeo.
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I am glad to announce that starting january 2020, andrea prat will lead jleo as editor in chief. We present an equilibrium theory of the organization of work in an economy. New directions wouter dessein columbia university, graduate school of business the seminal work by grossman and hart 1986 the costs and bene. Merging a number of existing incomplete contracting models, the chapter proposes two approaches with very different contracting assumptions. As an alternative, you can purchase a used edition of economics by david colander ninth edition, mcgrawhill 2012, isbn. The economics book by dk publishing is a decent resource.
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We are very grateful for comments from daniel barron, alessandro bonatti, wouter dessein, matthias fahn, daniel garrett, george georgiadis, bob gibbons, navin kartik, steve martin, patrick rey, mike whinston, yanhui wu, and participants of various conferences and seminars. Academic positions columbia university, graduate school of business eli ginzberg professor of finance and economics, 2009 chair, economics division, 2017 professor of finance and economics, 2008. This handbook represents the frontier of research into the economics of networks. Cardinal analysis, ordinal analysis, production function, economies of scale, cost concepts, price determination. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext.
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