A principal-agent model of sequential testing

Theoretical Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 425-463

  Gerardi, Dino ^a   Maestri, Lucas ^b  

^a Collegio Carlo Alberto ^*  (Italy)

^b TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamic mechanism design; Information acquisition; Sequential testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867137666     PISSN: 19336837     EISSN: 15557561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/TE914     Document Type: Article

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