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exponential utility and cost of effort, each separating renegotiation-proof contract is characterized by a single "sensitivity …" parameter, which determines how the agent's promised utility varies with reported cash flows. The optimal contract among those … information revelation. -- Repeated Agency ; Asymmetric Information ; Persistent Information ; Contract Theory ; Principal Agent …
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exponential utility and cost of effort, each separating renegotiation-proof contract is characterized by a single "sensitivity …" parameter, which determines how the agent's promised utility varies with reported cash flows. The optimal contract among those …, and information revelation. -- Repeated Agency ; Asymmetric Information ; Persistent Information ; Contract Theory …
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exponential utility and cost of effort, each separating renegotiation-proof contract is characterized by a single “sensitivity …” parameter, which determines how the agent's promised utility varies with reported cash flows. The optimal contract among those …
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about the asset? How do the disclosure rules of contract law influence the investigation decision? Shavell (1994) showed …-disclosure rule, which requires disclosure of material information, but only after the contract is concluded. We show that this rule … can be more efficient than both voluntary disclosure and mandatory (pre-contract) disclosure …
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We analyze a simple supply chain with one supplier, one retailer and uncertainty about market demand. Focusing on the incentives of the supplier and the retailer to enhance their private information about the actual market conditions, we show that choices on information acquisition are strategic...
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We analyze a competitive labor market in which workers signal their productivities through education à la Spence (1973), and firms have the option of auditing to learn workers’ productivities. Audits are costly and non–contractible. We characterize the trade–offs between signaling by...
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on the ex post payoff of the decision maker. The contract thus has to induce the experts to "monitor each other" by … making the transfers contingent on the entire vector of reports. We characterize the least costly contract that implements …
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In Spence's (1973) signaling by education model and in many of its extensions, firms can only infer workers' productivities from their education choices. In reality, firms also use sophisticated pre-employment auditing to learn workers' productivities. We characterize the trade-offs between...
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In Spence's (1973) signaling by education model and in many of its extensions, firms can only infer workers' productivities from their education choices. In reality, firms also use sophisticated pre-employment auditing to learn workers' productivities. We characterize the trade-offs between...
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state of a project prior to investing in it. For a given level of investment, a good project succeeds with higher … considered: (i) complete contingent contracts in which compensation to the consultant may depend on reports, investment levels …
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