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Debt, Futures and Options: Optimal Price-Linked Financial Contracts under Moral Hazard and Limited Liability

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This paper characterizes the optimal financial contract between a risk neutral entrepreneur and risk neutral lender/investors when the entrepreneur has limited liability, there is moral hazard, and the investor payoff function can depend on both output and output price but is nondecreasing in output. In this setting, the optimal contract is a price-contingent commodity bond that can be replicated by combining pure debt, commodity futures, and commodity call option contracts. Although a pure commodity bond contract is sometimes optimal, a pure debt contract is almost never optimal. Various properties of the entrepreneur's optimal price-contingent promised payment are described. Copyright 1993 by Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association.

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  • Innes, Robert, 1993. "Debt, Futures and Options: Optimal Price-Linked Financial Contracts under Moral Hazard and Limited Liability," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 34(2), pages 271-295, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:ier:iecrev:v:34:y:1993:i:2:p:271-95
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    1. Calum G. Turvey, 2006. "Managing food industry business and financial risks with commodity-linked credit instruments," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 22(4), pages 523-545.
    2. Marinakis, Kosmas & Tsoulouhas, Theofanis, 2013. "Are tournaments optimal over piece rates under limited liability for the principal?," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 31(3), pages 223-237.
    3. Pierre Chaigneau & Alex Edmans & Daniel Gottlieb, 2022. "How Should Performance Signals Affect Contracts?," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 35(1), pages 168-206.
    4. Alim OUSMANOU, 2020. "Système Comptable OHADA face aux défis de la finance verte," Journal of Academic Finance, RED research unit, university of Gabes, Tunisia, vol. 11(1), pages 139-150, June.
    5. Kosmas Marinakis & Theofanis Tsoulouhas, 2012. "A comparison of cardinal tournaments and piece rate contracts with liquidity constrained agents," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 105(2), pages 161-190, March.
    6. Gersbach, Hans & Uhlig, Harald, 2006. "Debt contracts and collapse as competition phenomena," Journal of Financial Intermediation, Elsevier, vol. 15(4), pages 556-574, October.
    7. Alim OUSMANOU, 2020. "Le Système Comptable OHADA face aux défis de la finance verte," Journal of Academic Finance, RED research unit, university of Gabes, Tunisia, vol. 11(1), pages 139-150, June.

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