Bester, Helmut; Dahm, Matthias - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2014
We study contracting between a consumer and an expert. The expert can invest in diagnosis to obtain a noisy signal about whether a low-cost service is sufficient or whether a high-cost treatment is required to solve the consumer´s problem. This involves moral hazard because diagnosis effort and...