Optimal contract with private information on cost expectation and variability
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Keywords
Multidimensional screening; Sequential screening; Expected cost; Cost variability; Marginal surplus function;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2012-07-29 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-MIC-2012-07-29 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-ORE-2012-07-29 (Operations Research)
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