Efficient Allocations with Moral Hazard and Hidden Borrowing and Lending: A Recursive Formulation

Arpad Abraham () and Nicola Pavoni

Review of Economic Dynamics, 2008, vol. 11, issue 4, 781-803

Abstract: We propose a tractable recursive framework to study the optimal allocation of consumption and effort in a dynamic setting with moral hazard where agents have secret access to the credit market or to storage. The recursive structure is based on a generalized first order approach, whose validity must be verified ex-post. Thanks to the recursive formulation of the optimal contract, the verification procedure turns out to be numerically parsimonious as it can be performed using standard dynamic programming techniques with only one endogenous state variable: The agent's level of assets. We study the performance of our ex-post verification test in practice by solving numerically three representative infinite horizon examples. (Copyright: Elsevier)

Keywords: Moral hazard; Hidden savings; Efficiency; Recursive contracts; First-order approach; Ex post verification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 D82 H21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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