Do Managers with Limited Liability Take More Risky Decisions? An Information Acquisition Model.
Risk-neutral individuals take more risky decisions when they have limited liability. Risk-neutral managers may not when acting as agents under contract and taking costly actions to acquire informatin before taking decisions. Limited liability makes it optimal to increase the reward for outcomes re...
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Department of Economics (University of Oxford)
2009
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