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To price the welfare consequences of monitor liability and assess whether capping stakes improves coverage when monitors face severe penalties for undetected failures.

August 16, 2026Open Access

The Inefficient Stake: Blame, Coverage, and the Welfare Case for a Cap

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To price the welfare consequences of monitor liability and assess whether capping stakes improves coverage when monitors face severe penalties for undetected failures.
Constructed a theoretical welfare model mapping a distribution of tasks across liability stakes and assigning monitors to them.
Integrated third-party harm pricing into the payoff substrate to evaluate coverage derivatives across fold geometry.
Higher stakes cause coverage to decline at a rate bounded away from zero, eventually collapsing monitor engagement to a corner solution.
A cap on liability stakes strictly dominates across all external harm prices, resolving bistable payoff ambiguity and establishing policy determinacy at zero cost.

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Theoretical model demonstrates that capping monitor liability increases inspection coverage across task distributions, indicating that lower stakes strictly dominate under fold geometry.

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Mikio Hanaeda (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a817ab4f2fb91fc834aebd8 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21945958

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Theoretical model demonstrates that capping monitor liability increases inspection coverage across task distributions, indicating that lower stakes strictly dominate under fold geometry.

The Inefficient Stake: Blame, Coverage, and the Welfare Case for a Cap

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