Incentive Mechanism for Inhibiting Developer’s Moral Hazard Behavior in China’s Sponge City Projects

As a new sustainable urban development concept, the Sponge city has an important influence on the stormwater treatment. The low-impact development (LID) system of nonpublic lands plays an important role in the entire construction of Sponge city. In the nonpublic lands’ LID system construction, a pri...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Han Han, Zhuofu Wang, Huimin Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-01-01
Series:Advances in Civil Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/6090683
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1832564868632281088
author Han Han
Zhuofu Wang
Huimin Li
author_facet Han Han
Zhuofu Wang
Huimin Li
author_sort Han Han
collection DOAJ
description As a new sustainable urban development concept, the Sponge city has an important influence on the stormwater treatment. The low-impact development (LID) system of nonpublic lands plays an important role in the entire construction of Sponge city. In the nonpublic lands’ LID system construction, a principal-agent relationship exists between the government and developer and the effect of construction mainly depends on the developer’s operation and management. Due to the asymmetry of information and the different benefit goals, the developer could be prone to take moral hazard behavior to damage the project and public’s interests. In this paper, based on the principal-agent relationship between the government and developer in Sponge city projects, principal-agent incentive models under the existence of developer’s moral hazard tendency were constructed to help the developer invest an optimal efforts level. The results show that an increase in incentive intensity would increase the developer’s optimal level of productive efforts in the presence of developer’s moral hazard tendency; this can indirectly cause an increase in total output performance of Sponge city, thus realizing a “win-win” effect between the government and developer. Likewise, a larger incentive intensity can also help reduce the developer’s moral hazard tendency. The more obvious moral hazard tendency of developer, the larger incentive coefficient should be. The findings provide reference for government seeking to specify incentive contracts from a theory perspective and curbing developer’s potential moral hazard behavior in Sponge city projects.
format Article
id doaj-art-13cc72aaf47a4a049d0a2ae7fba90b09
institution Kabale University
issn 1687-8086
1687-8094
language English
publishDate 2019-01-01
publisher Wiley
record_format Article
series Advances in Civil Engineering
spelling doaj-art-13cc72aaf47a4a049d0a2ae7fba90b092025-02-03T01:09:54ZengWileyAdvances in Civil Engineering1687-80861687-80942019-01-01201910.1155/2019/60906836090683Incentive Mechanism for Inhibiting Developer’s Moral Hazard Behavior in China’s Sponge City ProjectsHan Han0Zhuofu Wang1Huimin Li2School of Business, Hohai University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211100, ChinaSchool of Business, Hohai University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211100, ChinaDepartment of Construction Engineering and Management, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou, Henan 450046, ChinaAs a new sustainable urban development concept, the Sponge city has an important influence on the stormwater treatment. The low-impact development (LID) system of nonpublic lands plays an important role in the entire construction of Sponge city. In the nonpublic lands’ LID system construction, a principal-agent relationship exists between the government and developer and the effect of construction mainly depends on the developer’s operation and management. Due to the asymmetry of information and the different benefit goals, the developer could be prone to take moral hazard behavior to damage the project and public’s interests. In this paper, based on the principal-agent relationship between the government and developer in Sponge city projects, principal-agent incentive models under the existence of developer’s moral hazard tendency were constructed to help the developer invest an optimal efforts level. The results show that an increase in incentive intensity would increase the developer’s optimal level of productive efforts in the presence of developer’s moral hazard tendency; this can indirectly cause an increase in total output performance of Sponge city, thus realizing a “win-win” effect between the government and developer. Likewise, a larger incentive intensity can also help reduce the developer’s moral hazard tendency. The more obvious moral hazard tendency of developer, the larger incentive coefficient should be. The findings provide reference for government seeking to specify incentive contracts from a theory perspective and curbing developer’s potential moral hazard behavior in Sponge city projects.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/6090683
spellingShingle Han Han
Zhuofu Wang
Huimin Li
Incentive Mechanism for Inhibiting Developer’s Moral Hazard Behavior in China’s Sponge City Projects
Advances in Civil Engineering
title Incentive Mechanism for Inhibiting Developer’s Moral Hazard Behavior in China’s Sponge City Projects
title_full Incentive Mechanism for Inhibiting Developer’s Moral Hazard Behavior in China’s Sponge City Projects
title_fullStr Incentive Mechanism for Inhibiting Developer’s Moral Hazard Behavior in China’s Sponge City Projects
title_full_unstemmed Incentive Mechanism for Inhibiting Developer’s Moral Hazard Behavior in China’s Sponge City Projects
title_short Incentive Mechanism for Inhibiting Developer’s Moral Hazard Behavior in China’s Sponge City Projects
title_sort incentive mechanism for inhibiting developer s moral hazard behavior in china s sponge city projects
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/6090683
work_keys_str_mv AT hanhan incentivemechanismforinhibitingdevelopersmoralhazardbehaviorinchinasspongecityprojects
AT zhuofuwang incentivemechanismforinhibitingdevelopersmoralhazardbehaviorinchinasspongecityprojects
AT huiminli incentivemechanismforinhibitingdevelopersmoralhazardbehaviorinchinasspongecityprojects