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. An analyst is uncertain about what actions are available and evaluates a contract by the expected payoffs it guarantees …
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This paper characterizes equilibrium outcomes of extensive form games with incomplete information in which players can sign renegotiable contracts with third-parties. Our aim is to understand the extent to which third-party contracts can be used as commitment devices when it is impossible to...
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We consider an in nitely repeated reappointment game in a principal- agent relationship. Typical examples are voter-politician or government- public servant relationships. The agent chooses costly effort and enjoys being in office until he is deselected. The principal observes a noisy signal of...
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specific game-theoretic models (an observable-contract game and an unobservable-contract game), we find two key results: (i …) The unobservability of a contract may increase inefficiency of the environmental conflict in terms of legal efforts …; however, (ii) the unobservability of a contract may increase the fairness of the outcome in terms of the plaintiff …
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We study a moral hazard model in which the output is stochastically determined by both the agent's hidden effort and an uncertain state of the world. We investigate how the contractibility of the ex-post realization of the state affects the principal's incentive to provide information. While...
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