Incentives, contracts, and markets: A general equilibrium theory of firms

Econometrica

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1453-1500

  Zame, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contracts; Firms; General equilibrium; Incentives; Organizations; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547660334     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2007.00799.x     Document Type: Article

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