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Behavioral Contract Theory

Kőszegi, Botond·2014·Journal of Economic Literature
DOI 10.1257/jel.52.4.1075
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This review provides a critical survey of psychology-and-economics (“behavioral-economics”) research in contract theory. First, I introduce the theories of individual decision making most frequently used in behavioral contract theory, and formally illustrate some of their implications in contracting settings. Second, I provide a more comprehensive (but informal) survey of the psychology-and-economics work on classical contract-theoretic topics: moral hazard, screening, mechanism design, and incomplete contracts. I also summarize research on a new topic spawned by psychology and economics, exploitative contracting, that studies contracts designed primarily to take advantage of agent mistakes. (JEL A12, D03, D82, D86)

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Authors
Kőszegi, B.
Venue
Journal of Economic Literature
Publisher
American Economic Association
Published
2014-12-01
Volume
52
Issue
4
Pages
1075-1118
ISSN
0022-0515 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1257/jel.52.4.1075
OpenAlex
W2145283456
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317
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141
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28.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
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