Role of Information Rents in Relational Contracts

Akifumi Ishihara

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2016, vol. 25, issue 4, 936-957

Abstract: We study a repeated contracting model in which the agent has private information and the performance measure is unverifiable. In an optimal stationary contract, when the discount factor is not high, the principal's objective shifts from purely reducing the information rent toward increasing the total surplus to sustain the relational contract. As a result, the total surplus is not monotonically increasing in the discount factor and could decrease when the unverifiable performance measure becomes verifiable.

Date: 2016
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