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Econometrica

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1233-1275

  Williams, Noah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous time; Dynamic contracting; Principal agent model; Stochastic control

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959904578     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA7706     Document Type: Article

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