Winter 1995 Table of Contents

Winter 1995 Table of Contents

Symposium on The Economics of Organization

Volume 26, No. 4


Part I: The Organization of the Firm
AuthorsTitle
Susan Athey and Armin Schmutzler Product and Process Flexibility in an Innovative Environment
Timothy Van Zandt Continuous Approximations in the Study of Hierarchies
Martin Gaynor and Paul Gertler Moral Hazard and Risk Spreading in Partnerships
Kevin Lang and Peter-John Gordon Partnerships as Insurance Devices: Theory and Evidence
Julio J. Rotemberg and Garth Saloner Overt Interfunctional Conflict (and its Reduction through Business Strategy)
Nahum D. Melumad, Dilip Mookherjee, and Stefan Reichelstein Hierarchical Decentralization of Incentive Contracts
Part II: Agency Theory
Giovanni Maggi and Andres Rodriguez-Clare Costly Distortion of Information in Agency Problems
Stephanie A. Dunne and Mark A. Loewenstein Costly Verification of Cost Performance and the Competition for Incentive Contracts
M. Dewatripont and E. Maskin Contractual Contingencies and Renegotiation
Jaeyoung Sung Linearity with Project Selection and Controllable Diffusion Rate in Continuous-Time Principal-Agent Problems
Steven D. Levitt Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal
Sugato Bhattacharyya and Francine Lafontaine Double-Sided Moral Hazard and the Nature of Share Contracts
R. Glenn Hubbard and Darius Palia Benefits of Control, Managerial Ownership, and the Stock Returns of Acquiring Firms