Teaching Tools: A Simple Principal-Agent Experiment for the Classroom

Andreas Ortmann and David Colander

Economic Inquiry, 1997, vol. 35, issue 2, 443-50

Abstract: In this note, the authors describe a simple, flexible, and instructive moral hazard experiment. It can be used in a variety of classes, including principles classes, to illustrate the basic incentive conflicts in principal-agent interactions, the importance of information, and the power of reputational enforcement. Copyright 1997 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 1997
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