Indescribability and its irrelevance for contractual incompleteness
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Keywords
Asymmetric information; Bayesian implementation; Incentive compatibility; Incomplete contracts; Indescribability; Individual rationality; Irrelevance theorem; C72; D78; D82;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
- D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
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