I consider an environment in which the entrepreneur generates information about the quality of the projects prior to contracting with the investor. The investor faces a moral hazard problem, since the entrepreneur may divert the funding for private consumption. When the investor bargains with...

We consider a general information design problem in which the task of running a procedure generating information for a continuation game is performed by an agent. A moral hazard roblem therefore emerges in which the principal faces a trade-off between generating information with an eye to the...

Technological choice by a principal is added to the standard moral hazard model. It is argued that this is an important margin of choice. Two examples are provided in which the choice has significant implications. In one it drastically simplifies the optimal contract. In the other, it...