Externalities, communication and the allocation of decision rights

DOI10.1007/S00199-008-0395-ZMaRDI QIDQ836879zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Helmut Bester

Publication date 9 September 2009

Published in Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13481/

zbMATH Keywords

authoritydecision rightsexternalitiesimperfect informationincomplete contractstheory of the firm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38) Economics of information (91B44)

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