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Implementing deterministic outcomes in stochastic dynamic environments

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  • Burguet, Roberto
  • Tseng, Michael C.

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In noisy environments with adverse selection and moral hazard, dynamic contracts can induce a risk-neutral agent’s actions to deterministically implement any one-shot, incentive-compatible outcome. Thus, dynamic contracts improve upon the static second-best when the principal’s payoff is concave in output, e.g., due to risk aversion or payoff concavity. We bring out a new intuition that applies to both principal–agent and limited commitment settings (such as Kyle, 1985)—in both settings, the informed agent can be induced to reveal all his private information.

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  • Burguet, Roberto & Tseng, Michael C., 2024. "Implementing deterministic outcomes in stochastic dynamic environments," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 243(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:243:y:2024:i:c:s016517652400421x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111937
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    Keywords

    Adverse selection; Moral hazard; Dynamic contracts; Deterministic outputs;
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    JEL classification:

    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law

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