Contractual and Organizational Structure with Reciprocal Agents

Contractual structure in agriculture with endogenous matching

☆ We would like to thank Sandeep Baliga, Kaniska D Prendergast, Eric Maskin, Martin Wittenberg, and es erees for helpful feedback, and Devaki Ghose for rese thor would like to thank the Institute for Adv hospitality during the academic year 2000–01 when was written. A more recent version was circulated as dogenousMatching in Partnerships”, C.E.P.R. Discussion Pa thor thanks the Social Sciences ...

Contractual Structure and Wealth Accumulation

This paper examines whether historical wealth distributions can affect long run output and distribution despite rational saving behavior and the absence of any technological nonconvexities or externalities. We consider a model of equilibrium short period financial contracts, where poor agents face credit constraints owing to moral hazard and limited liability, and principals and agents are rand...

Agents, Trust, and Organizational Behavior

Trust is viewed as a computational construct capable of being explicitly studied and modeled. Although articulated as a (functional) property of individual agents, the collective effect of events influencing (and being influenced by) trust judgments can impact organizational behavior. In this paper we summarize our work on agent trust and explore a current study on trust, cooperativity, and ben...

Supporting organizational knowledge management with agents

Organizations are looking at ways to manage their information resources. Both the capture and the use of data created by the organization have come under scrutiny. Part of the concern comes from their desire to enhance the business process and part comes from the explosion of data available to any organization. In this context, the role of committees is being examined both as consumers and prod...

Organizational Structure and Wage Structure