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The article first defined the principal-agent problem and created agency theory.
Roger Martin: Fixing the Game: The Unintended Consequences of an Economic Theory Roger Martin 2011
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The article first defined the principal-agent problem and created agency theory.
Roger Martin: Fixing the Game: The Unintended Consequences of an Economic Theory Roger Martin 2011
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Echoing the work of academics such ad Deborah Avant he finds that the solutions for regulation mainly depend on the capabilities of national institutions, which affect the principal-agent relations between states and PMCs.
David Isenberg: Different Strokes for Different PMC Users David Isenberg 2010
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Does this not in fact reflect a huge principal-agent problem with a lot of quid pro quo backscratching of CEOs of each other?
Paul Graham on the Distribution of Income, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Echoing the work of academics such ad Deborah Avant he finds that the solutions for regulation mainly depend on the capabilities of national institutions, which affect the principal-agent relations between states and PMCs.
David Isenberg: Different Strokes for Different PMC Users David Isenberg 2010
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With contractor abuse, the concern is unaccountability -- a breakdown in the traditional principal-agent relationship.
David Isenberg: We Don't Need No Stinking Democracy David Isenberg 2010
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With contractor abuse, the concern is unaccountability -- a breakdown in the traditional principal-agent relationship.
David Isenberg: We Don't Need No Stinking Democracy David Isenberg 2010
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Regardless of what happens with the U.S. aid package, however, we still face a principal-agent problem.
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With contractor abuse, the concern is unaccountability -- a breakdown in the traditional principal-agent relationship.
David Isenberg: We Don't Need No Stinking Democracy David Isenberg 2010
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The present paper applies the economic toolbox to this problem, developing a principal-agent type model of shoplifting and shoplifting control.
Crime and Law 2009
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