The Principal-Agent Relationship with an Informed Principal: The Case of Private Values

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DOI10.2307/2938208zbMath0728.90107OpenAlexW2171915542MaRDI QIDQ3352883

Jean Tirole, Eric S. Maskin

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/68b9408990374ed9ebad558c68bc25e6d31f252d




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