RESEARCH

WorKing PApers

• Incentive Contracts and Peer Effects in the Workplace (with Pau Milán and Nicolás Oviedo-Dávila) [arXiv] [SSRN]

We study the problem of a principal designing wage contracts that simultaneously incentivize and insure workers. Workers' incentives are connected through chains of productivity spillovers, represented by a network of peer-effects. We solve for the optimal linear contract for any network and show that optimal incentives are steeper for more central workers. We link firm profits to organizations' structure via the spectral properties of the coworker network. When production is modular, the incentive allocation rule is sensitive to the link structure across and within modules.  When firms can't write personalize contracts, better connected workers extract rents. In this case, unemployment emerges endogenously because large within-group differences in centrality can decrease firm's profits.  

• Moral Hazard with Network Effects [JMP, subsumed by Incentive Contracts and Peer Effects in the Workplace]

Work In progress

• Network Interactions with Costly Opinion Differences (with Mihai Manea)

• Competition and Collaboration in Content Creation