Collaboration has emerged in recent years as a public administration trend of utmost importance (O’Leary, Gerard, and Bingham 2006). The growing complexity of contemporary social issues, dispersed expertise to address them, technological innovations, administrative fragmentation, and...

This paper examines moral hazard in teams over time. Agents are collectively engaged in an uncertain project, and their individual efforts are unobserved. Free-riding leads not only to a reduction in effort, but also to procrastination. The collaboration dwindles over time, but never ceases as...