ECON 519
Economics of Contracts and Organizations: Empirics
Critically reviews empirical literature on contracts and organization. Topics include multi-tasking; incentives and risk sharing; relative and subjective performance evaluation; team production; tournament and promotion; efficiency wage; career concern; relational contracts; asset specificity and asset ownership; complexity, uncertainty, asset ownership; adverse selection. Prerequisite: ECON 518; ECON 582, or permission of instructor.
Topics
- multi-tasking
- incentives and risk sharing
- relative and subjective performance evaluation
- team production
- tournament and promotion
- efficiency wage
- career concern
- relational contracts
- asset specificity and asset ownership
- complexity
- uncertainty
- asset ownership
- adverse selection
Topics explicitly listed in official catalogue description
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Current public catalogue; retrieved 2026-11-05