characterize the Nash-optimal contracts, and contrast the cases where both firms are risk-neutral and where at least one of the …

its owner unless a verification cost is borne. Contracts in such a setting are said to be consistent if agents submit to … verification and honor claims in accordance with prior agreements. The Pareto optimal consistent contracts which emerge are shown …

A decision maker, named Alice, wants to know if an expert has significant information about payoff … mitigated by screening contracts that separate informed from uninformed experts. This result stands in contrast with the … analysis of contracts under risk, where separation is often feasible. …

I show that stochastic contracts generate powerful incentives when agents suffer from probability distortion. When … implementing these contracts, the principal can target probability distortions in order to inflate the agent's perceived benefits … of exerting high levels of effort. This novel source of motivation is absent in contracts traditionally regarded as …