| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP4058
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| DP4058 Efficiency Wages and Unemployment in Cities: The Case of High Relocation Costs |
| Yves Zenou
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| 发表日期 | 2003-09-23
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| 出版年 | 2003
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | We are interested in the macroeconomic implications of the separation of ownership and control. An alternative decentralized interpretation of the stochastic growth model is proposed, one where shareholders hire a self-interested manager who is in charge of the firm?s hiring and investment decisions. Delegation is seen to give rise to a generic conflict of interests between shareholders and managers. This conflict fundamentally results from the different income base of the two types of agents, once aggregate market clearing conditions are taken into account. An optimal contract exists resulting in an observational equivalence between the delegated management economy and the standard representative agent business cycle model. The optimal contract, however, appears to be miles away from standard practice: the manager?s remuneration is tied to the firm?s total income net of investment expenses, abstracting totally from wage costs. In order to align the interest of a manager more conventionally remunerated on the basis of the firm?s operating results to those of stockholder-workers, the manager must be made nearly risk neutral. We show the limited power of convex contracts to accomplish this goal and the necessity, if the manager is too risk averse (log or higher than log), of considerably downplaying the incentive features of his remuneration. The difficulty in reconciling the viewpoints of a manager with powers of delegation and of a representative firm owner casts doubt on the descriptive validity of the macro-dynamics highlighted in the representative agent macroeconomic model. |
| 主题 | Financial Economics
; International Macroeconomics
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| 关键词 | Business cycles
Delegated management
Contracting
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp4058
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/533034
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Yves Zenou. DP4058 Efficiency Wages and Unemployment in Cities: The Case of High Relocation Costs. 2003.
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