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Unpublished Paper
Anti-Sharing as a Theory of Partnerships and Firms
(2006)
  • Robert D Cooter, University of California, Berkeley
  • Roland Kirstein
Abstract

Anti-Sharing may improve the efficiency of teams. The Anti-Sharer collects a fixed payment from all team members; he receives the actual output and pays out its value to them. However, if a team members assumes the role of an "internal" Anti-Sharer, he will be unproductive in equilibrium. Hence, internal Anti-Sharing fails to yield the first-best outcome. External Anti-Sharing may induce the team members to choose efficient effort. The paper presents possible applications of Anti-Sharing: while internal Anti-Sharing may provide an explanation for the existence of senior (or managing) partners, external Anti-Sharing leads to a new theory of the incorporated firm.

Keywords
  • Budget-breaker,
  • corporate law,
  • constrained e
Disciplines
Publication Date
December, 2006
Citation Information
Robert D Cooter and Roland Kirstein. "Anti-Sharing as a Theory of Partnerships and Firms" (2006)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/robert_cooter/139/