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  "title": "Hierarchy and Authority in a Dynamic Perspective: A Model Applied to Donor Financing of NGO Proposals",
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  "summary": "This paper presents a dynamic game of strategic delegation between a principal and an agent. The principal can choose between two organizational designs: a traditional hierarchy where she retains authority over the choice of projects to be implemented or a delegation where she allows her agent to se",
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      "content": "- This paper presents a dynamic game of strategic delegation between a principal and an agent.\n- The principal can choose between two organizational designs:\n  - a traditional hierarchy where she retains authority over the choice of projects to be implemented; or\n  - a delegation where she allows her agent to select the project.\n- Key objectives:\n  - identify the long-run determinants of the principal’s choice; and\n  - verify the impact of the authority allocation on the agent’s effort levels and on the principal’s payoffs.\n- Application: relationships between institutional donors and nongovernmental organizations."
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      "heading": "Model and Objectives",
      "content": "- Dynamic game of strategic delegation between a principal and an agent.\n- Organizational designs considered:\n  - Hierarchy: principal retains authority over project choice.\n  - Delegation: agent selects the project.\n- Focus areas:\n  - agent's choice, agent's effort, agent's expertise, agent's initiative, agent's preference;\n  - principal-agent issues and principal-agent relationship;\n  - strategic delegation and dynamic games."
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      "heading": "Application to Donor–NGO Relationships",
      "content": "- The model is applied to institutional donors and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to study how authority allocation affects:\n  - effort of the agent;\n  - principal’s payoffs;\n  - long-run organizational design choices by principals (donors)."
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      "content": "- Primary themes and subject areas:\n  - Asset and liability management, Debt limits, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Nongovernmental organizations, Project loans.\n- Keywords included in the paper:\n  - agent's choice, agent's effort, agent's expertise, agent's initiative, agent's preference, Debt limits, development aid, dynamic games, Eastern Europe, effort of the agent, hierarchies, NGOs, Nongovernmental organizations, principal-agent issues, principal-agent relationship, Project loans, strategic delegation, WP.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- wp03157\n  - wp03157 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - wp03157 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/30/hierarchy-and-authority-in-a-dynamic-perspective-a-model-applied-to-donor-financing-of-ngo-16713"
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    "Authors: Boriana Yontcheva",
    "Published: July 1, 2003",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451857511.001",
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