
handle: 11693/24768 , 11693/25756
This paper studies a simple setting in which the contractual arrangements which determine the incentives for agents are not designed by a single central planner, but are themselves the outcome of a game among multiple non-cooperatively acting principals. The notion of an Epsilon Contracting Equilibrium is introduced to predict the outcome of the contract-design game among principals. Symmetric pure-strategy Epsilon Contracting Equilibria may not exist in perfectly symmetric environments. In a symmetric Epsilon Contracting Equilibrium in mixed strategies coordination failure may lead to a suboptimal institutional network in which the agents "cheat" their principals.
Noncooperative games, Adverse selection, Labor market, contracts, advverse selection, Applications of game theory, Multiagents, multiprincipals, Multiprincipals, equilibrium, Epsilon contracting equilibrium
Noncooperative games, Adverse selection, Labor market, contracts, advverse selection, Applications of game theory, Multiagents, multiprincipals, Multiprincipals, equilibrium, Epsilon contracting equilibrium
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