1992
DOI: 10.1007/bf01213250
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Measurement distortion and missing contingencies in optimal contracts

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“…The model's predictions also differ significantly from those of Allen and Gale (1992), in which the use of contracts with missing contingencies as a signaling mechanism necessarily causes pooling-type equilibrium outcomes, and hence prevents the agent from inferring the principal's information. Our analysis, by contrast, shows that less binding agreements are able to guarantee the separation of unobservable types at equilibrium.…”
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confidence: 48%
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“…The model's predictions also differ significantly from those of Allen and Gale (1992), in which the use of contracts with missing contingencies as a signaling mechanism necessarily causes pooling-type equilibrium outcomes, and hence prevents the agent from inferring the principal's information. Our analysis, by contrast, shows that less binding agreements are able to guarantee the separation of unobservable types at equilibrium.…”
Section: Reference Literaturementioning
confidence: 48%
“…The informative value of contractual incompleteness is underlined also by Allen and Gale (1992) and Spier (1992) in signaling models. In this context, a higher level of completeness can be interpreted by the agent as a signal of the principal's willingness to shield himself from potentially adverse scenarios by sharing the risk with his partner, while incomplete contracts may rather signal the willingness to bear any risk, which could be interpreted as a relatively low likelihood of negative events.…”
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“…La première réside dans la référence obligée à des coûts exogènes. C'est notamment le cas chez Allen et Gale (1992), où c'est un différentiel de coûts à manipuler le signal comptable du coût qui conditionne le type de l'agent. De même chez Spier, où, même si elle élargit la classe des contrats incomplets efficaces, l'asymétrie d'information n'est pas à proprement parler à l'origine de l'incomplétude.…”
Section: L'incomplétude Comme Résultat D'une Stratégie De Signalunclassified
“…the costs of specifying contingencies as the cause of incompleteness. 3) The asymmetrical information: Many authors (Hermalin, 1988;Aghion and Hermalin, 1990;Allen and Gale, 1992;Spier, 1992) try to explain the incompleteness by the signalling effect of the parties' willingness to include a contingency in the contract in a world of asymmetric information. Spier (1992) particularly explores the idea that strategic considerations during contract formation may lead to contractual incompleteness.…”
Section: Iii1 Incompleteness: Causes and Consequencesmentioning
confidence: 99%