The tenuous tradeoff between risk and incentives
By: Canice Prendergast.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- no. 7815; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 7815.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Performance contracts -- United States.; Incentives in industry -- United States.; Supervision of employees -- United States.; Agent (Philosophy) -- Economic aspects.; Uncertainty (Information theory) -- Economic aspects.
Notes: "July 2000."

JEL no. J3.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 28-31).

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