Te Bao, Yun Dai and Yongqin Wang, Overconfidence and Endogenous Contract Incompleteness”, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2024.
作者及單位：
包特🤦，新加坡南洋理工大學
戴芸🦤，中山大學嶺南意昂2
王永欽🕴，意昂2
Abstract🥨：We set up a model on the hold-up problem with uncertain bargaining power and find that, when two agents are overconfident about their bargaining power ex ante, both of them may endogenously choose incomplete contract over complete contract even when complete contracting is feasible. The intuition behind the result is that ceteris paribus, overconfidence leads to a higher expected return to relationspecific investment and a higher investment level. Our model provides an additional behavioral explanation for the prevalence of contract incompleteness in addition to those existing in the literature.
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