The Multiperiod Principal-Agent Problem

DOI10.2307/2297391MaRDI QIDQ3780708zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James M. Malcomson, Frans Spinnewyn

Publication date 1988

Published in Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2297391

zbMATH Keywords

incentiveslong-term contractsmoral hazardrepeated principal-agent modelsrisk sharingshort-term contract

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38) Economic growth models (91B62) Hierarchical systems (93A13)

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