On the Use of Hierarchies to Complete Contracts when Players Have Limited Abilities
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hierarchies; contract theory; complexity; correlated information; hiérarchies; théorie des contrats; complexité; information corrélée;All these keywords.
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- L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
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