Information Control in the Principal-Agent Problem

DOI10.2307/2526911MaRDI QIDQ5288084zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joel Sobel

Publication date 30 September 1993

Published in International Economic Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2526911

zbMATH Keywords

different informational assumptionsprincipal-agent models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hierarchical games (including Stackelberg games) (91A65) Economics of information (91B44) Hierarchical systems (93A13)

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