Incentives in organizations and markets: A development of multi principal agent theory with applications for privatization, competition and outsourcing

This project aims at deepening the study of the intersection between markets and hierarchy/bureaucracy. This project is partly motivated by a number of questions related to the organization of the public sector that have only been analyzed to a small extent, and also by the lack of a unifying conceptual framework for studying how incentives are determined in markets, in hierarchies/bureaucracies and in the intersection between markets and organizations. The project aims both to develop a theory for how incentives are determined within organizations and in markets and to apply this theory to questions regarding the organization of public sector services, with a particular focus on Swedish health-care.