We study the decision problems faced by a city authority (CA) who focuses on two different objectives in her attempt to attract members of the creative class to her city by providing a local public good (LPG). First, we compute the maximum tax that a creative class member is willing to pay to...

While it is clear that in most settings, landlords generally contract with many tenants whose productivities are positively correlated, the salience of relative performance evaluation in the design of rural wage contracts has been little studied in development economics. This paper analyzes two...

I study a class of agency problems that are characterized by the existence of an underlying organizational hierarchy. Specifically, I analyze a two forked, three tiered hierarchy and I show that when the private information of the players in the second and in the third tiers of the hierarchy,...