We study the problem of a policymaker who seeks to set policy optimally in an economy where the true economic structure is unobserved, and policymakers optimally learn from their observations of the economy. This is a classic problem of learning and control, variants of which have been studied...

This paper studies the design of optimal contracts in dynamic environments where agents' private information is persistent. In particular, I focus on a continuous time version of an insurance problem similar to Green (1987) and Thomas and Worall (1990), where a risk averse agent would like to...