Project selection with partially verifiable information
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- Sumit Goel & Wade Hann-Caruthers, 2020. "Project selection with partially verifiable information," Papers 2007.00907, arXiv.org, revised Feb 2022.
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Mechanism design; Project selection; Principal–agent problem; Partial verifiability; Cutoff mechanisms; Ally principle;All these keywords.
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