Adjustment of an affine contract with a fixed-point iteration

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 477-497

  Kitti, M ^a   Ehtamo, H ^b  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Contracts; Convergence; Fixed point iteration; Principal agent problems

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

CONVERGENCE; CONVERGENCE CONDITIONS; FIXED-POINT ITERATIONS; HOMOGENEOUS SYSTEM; NONLINEAR MAPPINGS; PARAMETERIZING; PRINCIPAL AGENTS; PRINCIPAL-AGENT PROBLEMS; SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 60349106289     PISSN: 00223239     EISSN: 15732878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10957-008-9465-4     Document Type: Article

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