Conditional versus Contingent Fees
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- Winand Emons, 2007. "Conditional versus contingent fees," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 59(1), pages 89-101, January.
- Winand Emons, 2004. "Conditional versus Contingent Fees," Diskussionsschriften dp0409, Universitaet Bern, Departement Volkswirtschaft.
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Keywords
Contingent fees; Conditional fees; Adverse selection; Moral hazard; Screening; Pooling;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- K10 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - General (Constitutional Law)
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