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Birds of a Feather: Teams as a Screening Mechanism

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  • Breton, M.
  • St-Amour, P.
  • Vencatachellum, D.

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This paper studies the informational content of elective teams in a dynamic agency framework with adverse selection. Two agents with different employment histories are paid their conditional expected marginal product. They observe their types (good or bad), and chooose between working together or separately. We characterize the distributions on agents' types, nature and wages such that teams are formed exclusively by good-type agents, with and without side payments.

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  • Breton, M. & St-Amour, P. & Vencatachellum, D., 1998. "Birds of a Feather: Teams as a Screening Mechanism," Papers 98-05, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Montreal-.
    • Handle: RePEc:fth:etcomo:98-05
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    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness

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