EBK INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS AND ITS
EBK INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS AND ITS
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781305176386
Author: Snyder
Publisher: YUZU
bartleby

Concept explainers

Question
Book Icon
Chapter 15, Problem 1RQ
To determine

To explain:

Way to remove trade-off between incentives and risk and also ways to reduce moral hazard problem.

Expert Solution & Answer
Check Mark

Explanation of Solution

Due to negligence of manager’ effort, problem of moral hazard arises. Moreover, if the manager is risk-averse then the moral hazard problem become further accentuated.

Given the above context and also assuming that there exists a trade-off between risk and incentives, it would be difficult to reach an efficient outcome where the marginal pay of the manager is equal to the marginal cost of manager’s effort. This is due to the presence of asymmetric information which links the managers pay to firm's performance (or gross profit) and not his effort. As a result the manger is exposed to risk which is associated with the uncertain gross profits of the firm. This will give rise to two situations: (1) manager will choose less salary for less risk; and (2) on the other hand, the risk-averse manager will not accept high-powered incentive contract compelling the shareholders to pay a higher fixed salary to the manager to accept the risk.

The moral-hazard problem can be eliminated if the effort of the manager is directly observable by simply linking the manager's effort to the manager’s pay. This is because when the effort is observable, the shareholders know that manager's effort is in his control and there is no uncertainty as such.

If the effort is unobservable and the manager is risk-neutral, then the problem of moral-hazard problem can be eliminated by paying incentives for the effort of managers if shareholders gross profit increases.

Economics Concept Introduction

Introduction:

Moral hazard is a feature of market failure in which an individual tries to expose himself to risk when he is not bearing the full cost of risk.

Want to see more full solutions like this?

Subscribe now to access step-by-step solutions to millions of textbook problems written by subject matter experts!
Students have asked these similar questions
How information asymmetry can impact economic efficiency. In your answer cover the following: a) What is principal-agent problem? Support your answer with relevant examples. b) What is efficiency wage? Support your answer with appropriate graph.
For an output level exactly at QEQE, the value of a unit to a buyer is equal to   the cost of a unit to a seller.   Suppose a firm that produces for this market employs a private security force that makes town residents, many of whom have no business with the company, feel safer. This scenario is characterized by    , which is an example of
Are these statements true or false? Provide a detailed explanation as to how you arrived at your answer: 1. If someone has linear indifference curves between contingent commodity bundles, then they must be risk averse and the risk premium is positive. 2. If a game has a Pareto efficient outcome, there exists a Nash equilibrium that leads to this outcome. 3. If a quantity tax is imposed on a profit maximising monopolist, consumer bear a higher burden of the tax than producers.
Knowledge Booster
Background pattern image
Economics
Learn more about
Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, economics and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.
Similar questions
SEE MORE QUESTIONS
Recommended textbooks for you
Text book image
Managerial Economics: A Problem Solving Approach
Economics
ISBN:9781337106665
Author:Luke M. Froeb, Brian T. McCann, Michael R. Ward, Mike Shor
Publisher:Cengage Learning
Text book image
Managerial Economics: Applications, Strategies an...
Economics
ISBN:9781305506381
Author:James R. McGuigan, R. Charles Moyer, Frederick H.deB. Harris
Publisher:Cengage Learning