Saturday, October 1, 2011

Contingent payments

The full range of state dependent event dependent instruments has hardly been tapped


One can easel envision a complex of interrelated payments that in amount and timing flex with events and system state

Default insurance made universal could back stop an array of contingent payment agreements
Mediating the unit transfers of funds but allowing thru tax and subsidy algorithms for expectations to be fulfilled crucially

Example a manager might be obligated to make a fractional or super sized payment depending on eventualities outside his or her control

It would allow automatic reward and fining for management actions decisions and commitments
Only based on manager controllable features of the eventuality

Escrow compensation becomes contingency payments based on outcomes

The contracting proces becomes .....complex
But the inequities and hazards of fortune and happenstance can be minimized



Blunt fact

Today
The rigidity of unconditional non contingent obligations vastly constricts
agent and principal action