Collusion, Shading, and Optimal Organization Design in a Three-tier Agency Model with a Continuum of Types
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Collusion; Supervision; Mechanism Design; First Order (Mirrlees) Approach; Behavioral Economics; Shading;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
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