Mechanism sufficient statistic in the risk-neutral agency problem



Demougin, D ORCID: 0000-0002-1744-0390 and Fluet, C
(1998) Mechanism sufficient statistic in the risk-neutral agency problem. JOURNAL OF INSTITUTIONAL AND THEORETICAL ECONOMICS-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE GESAMTE STAATSWISSENSCHAFT, 154 (4). pp. 622-639.

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the efficient use of information in an agency relationship with moral hazard, when parties are risk-neutral. We show that, given an arbitrary information system, all relevant information from a mechanism-design point of view can be summarized by a binary statistic. We then show that this allows a complete ordering of information systems for the risk-neutral agency problem. These results are obtained under a weak convexity condition which does not rely on an exogenous ordering on signal sets. The condition is shown to be more general than existing requirements for justifying the first-order approach.

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Uncontrolled Keywords: D2, D8
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Date Deposited: 15 Aug 2016 09:59
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3002939