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Subjective evaluations are widely used, but call for different contracts from classical moral-hazard settings. Previous literature shows that contracts require payments to third parties. I show that the (implicit) assumption of deterministic contracts makes payments to third parties necessary....
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This paper analyzes the optimal contract for a consumer to procure a credence good from an expert when (i) the expert … payments on him. We characterize payments under the optimal contract and show that, compared with the first-best, these induce …
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I show that deterministic dynamic contracts between a principal and an agent are always at least as profitable to the principal as stochastic ones, if the so-called first-order approach in dynamic mechanism design is satisfied. The principal commits, while the agent's type evolution follows a...
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Nobel for their fundamental contributions to contract theory. This article offers a short summary and discussion of their …
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the presumption that a relational contract can establish a norm of reciprocity, I show that generous upfront wages that …
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This paper shows that the possibility of collusion between an agent and a supervisor imposes no restrictions on the set of implementable social choice functions (SCF) and associated payoff vectors. Any SCF and any payoff profile that are implementable if the supervisor's information was public...
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We show that every sequential screening model is equivalent to a standard text book static screening model. We use this result and apply well-established techniques from static screening to obtain solutions for classes of sequential screening models for which standard sequential screening...
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