Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107447 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
TUC Working Papers in Economics No. 06
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Clausthal, Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Abstract: 
We conducted six treatments of a standard moral hazard experiment with hidden action. All treatments had identical Nash equilibria. However, the behavior in all treatments and periods was inconsistent with established agency theory (Nash equilibrium). In the early periods of the experiment, behavior differed significantly between treatments. This difference largely vanished in the final periods. We used logit equilibrium (LE) as a device to grasp boundedly rational behavior and found the following: (1) LE predictions are much closer to subjects’ behavior in the laboratory; (2) LE probabilities of choosing between strategies and experimental behavior show remarkably similar patterns; and (3) profit‐maximizing contract offers according to the LE are close to those derived from regressions.
Subjects: 
experiment
logit equilibrium
moral hazard
hidden action
JEL: 
C72
C92
J31
L14
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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