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Optimal contracts under competition when uncertainty from adverse selection and moral hazard are present

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In a continuous-time setting where a risk-averse agent controls the drift of an output process driven by a Brownian motion, optimal contracts are linear in the terminal output; this result is well-known in a setting with moral hazard and under stronger assumptions adverse selection. We show that this result continues to hold when in addition reser- vation utilities are type-dependent. This type of problem occurs in the study of optimal compensation problems involving competing principals.

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  • Packham, Natalie, 2018. "Optimal contracts under competition when uncertainty from adverse selection and moral hazard are present," IRTG 1792 Discussion Papers 2018-033, Humboldt University of Berlin, International Research Training Group 1792 "High Dimensional Nonstationary Time Series".
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