Information Gathering, Delegated Contracting And Corporate Hierarchies
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Keywords
Corporate hierarchies; information gathering; delegation; centralization.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2009-07-17 (Business Economics)
- NEP-CTA-2009-07-17 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-GTH-2009-07-17 (Game Theory)
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