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Recursive Contracts

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Marcet, A.
Marimon, R.

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The authors obtain a recursive formulation for a general class of contracting problems involving incentive constraints. These constraints make the corresponding maximization (sup)problems non recursive. Our approach consists of studying a recursive Lagrangian.

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Paper provided by European University Institute in its series Economics Working Papers with number eco98/37.

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Date of creation: 1998
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Keywords: CONTRACTS ; MOTIVATION;

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L14 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation
D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General

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