The Perverse Incentive of Knowing the Truth
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Keywords
Transparency; Principal-Agent; Reputation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2013-01-26 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-CTA-2013-01-26 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-HPE-2013-01-26 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2013-01-26 (Microeconomics)
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