On young Turks and yes men: optimal contracting for advice.

We study contracting for advice by an agent about how much a principal should invest in a project. Providing the agent with incentives to perform research endogenously generates incentives for her to misreport the results. For high‐cost (low‐cost) projects, she wishes to overstate (understate) the m...

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Publicado en:RAND Journal of Economics (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 63 - 95
Autores principales: Häfner, Samuel, Taylor, Curtis R.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2022
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