Incentive Effects of Funding Contracts : An Experiment

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2012
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Reiß, J. Philipp
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Working Paper Series / Department of Economics; 2012‐26
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We examine the incentive effects of funding contracts on entrepreneurial effort decisions and allocative efficiency. We experiment with funding contracts that differ in the structure of investor repayment and, therefore, in the incentives for entrepreneurial effort provision. Theoretically the replacement of a standard debt contract by a repayment-equivalent non-monotonic contract reduces effort distortions and increases efficiency. Likewise the replacement of outside equity by a repayment-equivalent standard-debt contract mitigates distortions. We test both hypotheses in the laboratory. Our results reveal that the incentive effects of funding contracts need to be experienced before they reflect in observed behavior. With sufficient experience observed behavior is consistent with the theoretical predictions and supports both hypotheses. If we allow for entrepreneur-sided manipulations of the project outcome we find that non-monotonic contracts lose its appeal.
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hidden information, funding contracts, incentives, experiment, standard debt contract, non-monotonic contract, state manipulation
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ISO 690REISS, J. Philipp, Irenaeus WOLFF, 2012. Incentive Effects of Funding Contracts : An Experiment
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  year={2012},
  series={Working Paper Series / Department of Economics},
  title={Incentive Effects of Funding Contracts : An Experiment},
  number={2012‐26},
  author={Reiß, J. Philipp and Wolff, Irenaeus},
  note={Auf dem PDF steht die Bandnummer "2012-27", es ist aber "2012-26".}
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Auf dem PDF steht die Bandnummer "2012-27", es ist aber "2012-26".
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