We analyze the contractual design problem of a principal who delegates decision-making and information provision. The principal faces two tasks: he has to decide the level of discretion to be granted to the decision-maker ...

The paper focuses on the organization of institutions designed to resolve disputes between two parties, when some information is not veriable and decision makers may have vested preferences. It shows that the choice of how ...

Non-human primates host a variety of gastrointestinal parasites that infect individuals through different transmission routes. Social contact among group members (e.g., body contact, grooming) brings the risk of parasite ...

The provision of public goods under asymmetric information has most often been viewed as a mechanism design problem under the aegis of an uninformed mediator. This paper focuses on institutional contexts without such a ...

En el Ecuador, la seguridad social no es universal. El Banco de la Seguridad Social (Biess) se creó en 2009 y entró a operar formalmente un año después. Este Banco utiliza recursos de las reservas de la seguridad social ...

La presente investigación se origina debido a la preocupación de la población local, quienes manifiestan que en los últimos años se ha registrado una disminución progresiva de la disponibilidad del agua en el ámbito ...

This paper analyses the relationship between school provision and the political power of the president in Uruguay between 1914 and 1954. The empirical test relies on panel fixed effects models based on newly compiled ...