ECON 416 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Moral Hazard, The Employer, Risk Aversion

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Wanted to figure out the causal effects of cultural shock on the returns to capital. Compare returns to capital to market interest rate. Markets for capital don"t work as smoothly in other parts of the world (marginal rates of capital, higher than the interest rate) related to credit constraints. Combination of labor markets: high employment rates, downwardly rigid wages. The issue of caloric intakes is particularly relevant in developing countries. At low levels of caloric intakes, workers are not productive. The employer faces a trade-off: lower wages would be profitable, but, too low wages may not be enough to make workers productive. A wage about the market-clearing one is needed. The amount of effort exerted by workers is often unobservable. Just like for borrowers in the model for credit we saw, this yield to moral hazard. Effort cannot be perfectly inferred by output, and workers can cheat. Again, a wage about the market-clearing one is needed.

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