Deterministic versus Stochastic Contracts in a Dynamic Principal-Agent Model

Thomas Mettral
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Thomas Mettral: HU Berlin

No 93, Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series from CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition

Abstract: I show that deterministic dynamic contracts between a principal and an agent are always at least as profitable to the principal as stochastic ones, if the so-called first-order approach in dynamic mechanism design is satisfied. The principal commits, while the agent\'s type evolution follows a Markov process. My results demonstrate, even when allowing for potential correlation of stochastic contracts across periods that the usual restriction in the literature to deterministic contracts is admissible, as long as the first-order approach is valid.

Keywords: contract theory; principal-agent theory; dynamic contracting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D82 D86 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-04-24
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