Dynamic Contracting with Limited Commitment and the Ratchet Effect
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- Gerardi, Dino & Maestri, Lucas, 2020. "Dynamic contracting with limited commitment and the ratchet effect," Theoretical Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 15(2), May.
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Keywords
Dynamic Contracting; Limited Commitment; Ratchet Effect.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2015-03-05 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-HRM-2015-03-05 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-MFD-2015-03-05 (Microfinance)
- NEP-MIC-2015-03-05 (Microeconomics)
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