Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57498 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2010,39
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
We consider a principal-agent model with moral hazard where the agent's knowledge about the performance measure is ambiguous and he is averse towards ambiguity. We show that the principal may optimally provide no incentives or contract only on a subset of all informative performance measures. That is, the Informativeness Principle does not hold in our model. These results stand in stark contrast to the ones of the orthodox theory, but are empirically of high relevance.
Subjects: 
Moral Hazard
Ambiguity Aversion
Principal-Agent Model
Informativeness Principle
JEL: 
D82
M12
M52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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