Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57475 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2011,13
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
We study a dynamic model of team production with moral hazard. We show that the players begin to invest effort only shortly before the time limit when the reward for solving the task is shared equally. We explore how the team can design contracts to mitigate this form of procrastination and show that the second-best optimal contract is discriminatory. We investigate how limited liability or the threat of sabotage influences the team's problem. It is further shown that players who earn higher wages can be worse off than teammates with lower wages and that present-biased preferences can mitigate procrastination.
Subjects: 
moral hazard
team production
partnerships
procrastination
contract design
discrimination
JEL: 
D82
M52
L22
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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