The standard contest model in which participants compete in a single dimension is well
understood and documented. Multi‐dimension extensions are possible but are liable to …

We provide a theoretical analysis of multitask promotion tournaments in which workers
increase their promotion chances by under-performing (over-performing) on tasks that are …

We expand the optimal targeting enforcement literature to allow regulator inspection
capacity constraints. A fixed number of firms are selected for inspection and those with the …

Local government competition plays an extremely central role in the process of China's
economic development from quantity growth to quality improvement. From the one-task …

By analyzing production with a continuum of tasks subject to common stochastic effects, the
analysis shows that tension between business commonality and standardization is an …

Die vorliegende Dissertation entstand während meiner Zeit als externer Doktorand am
Seminar für Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Controlling an der Universität zu Köln …

The subject of our paper is the regulation of nonpoint pollution targeted on emissions
proxies. We consider n risk-averse sources controlling multiple pollutants, and develop a …

We investigate the moral hazard problem in which the principal delegates multiple tasks to
two agents. She imperfectly monitors the action choices by observing the public signals that …

Consider a principal who assigns a job with two tasks to two identical agents. Monitoring the
agents' efforts is costly. Therefore the principal rewards the agents based on their (noisy) …

We investigate the moral hazard problem in which a principal delegates multiple tasks to
multiple workers. The principal imperfectly monitors their action choices by observing the …