Efficient and Nearly-Efficient Partnerships.
This paper shows in two ways that the degree to which free-riding diminishes the performance of deterministic partnerships may be less than has been generally thought. First, a necessary and sufficient condition is provided for a partnership to sustain full efficiency. It implies that many nontrivial partnerships sustain efficiency, such as generic ones with finite action spaces, and neoclassical ones with Leontief technologies. Second, approximate efficiency is shown to be achievable in a large class of partnerships, including ones with smooth and monotonic production and disutility functions. Copyright 1993 by The Review of Economic Studies Limited.
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1993
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Authors: | Legros, Patrick ; Matthews, Steven A |
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Review of Economic Studies. - Wiley Blackwell, ISSN 0034-6527. - Vol. 60.1993, 3, p. 599-611
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