Contractive Dual Methods for Incentive Problems

Matthias Messner, Nicola Pavoni and Christopher Sleet

No 466, Working Papers from IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University

Abstract: Several recent papers have proposed recursive Lagrangian-basedmethods for solving dynamic contracting problems. Thesemethods give rise to Bellman operators that incorporate either a dual inf-sup or a saddle point operation. We give conditions that ensure the Bellman operator implied by a dual recursive formulation is contractive. JEL codes: C61, C73, D82, E61. Keywords: Dynamic Contracts, Duality, Dynamic Programming, Contraction Mapping Theorem.

Date: 2012
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