This paper considers dynamic moral hazard settings, in which the consequences of the agent's actions is not precisely understood. In a new continuous-time principal-agent model with drift ambiguity, the agent's unobservable action translates to drift set for the diffusion processes that describe...

We develop a counterterrorism model to analyze the effects of allowing a government agency to torture suspects when evidence of terrorist involvement is strong. We find that legalizing torture in strong-evidence cases has offsetting effects on agency incentives to counter terrorism by means...