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Principal-agent assignment: implications for incentives and income distribution in tenancy relationships
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
I analyze a problem of assigning heterogeneous agents (tenants) to heterogeneous principals (landlords), where partnerships are subject to moral hazard in effort choice. The agents differ in wealth endowment and the ...
Notes on the constrained suboptimality result by J.D. Geanakoplos and H.M. Polemarchakis (1986)
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2009)
J. D. Geanakoplos and H. M. Polemarchakis (1986) prove the generic constrained suboptimality of equilibrium allocations in two period economies with incomplete markets. In these notes we provide a complete and detailed ...
A two-sided matching model of monitored finance
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
We analyse a model of two-sided matching and incentive contracts where expert investors (venture capitalists) with different monitoring capacities are matched with firms with different levels of initial wealth. Firms do ...
An assignment model of monitored finance
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
We develop an incentive contracting model of firm formation. Entrepreneurs of private equity firms who differ in net worth are required to borrow from institutional investors in order to finance start up projects. Investors, ...
Group reputations under anonymity
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 1998)
This paper studies incentives to invest in 'group reputations' when the latter result from the inability of certain agents to recognize their partners from past interactions; (i.e., anonymity). It does this by embedding ...
Sunspot and sunspot-like equilibria in an overlapping generations economy with strategic interactions
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2004)
In this paper we analyze the effect of market uncertainty in an overlapping generations economy with strategic interactions among agents. We demonstrate the existence of sunspot and sunspont-like equilibria in this economy. ...
Stability and equilibrium selection in a link formation game
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2005)
In this paper we use a non cooperative equilibrium selection approach as a notion of stability in link formation games. Specifically, we first extend the global games literature, originally introduced by Carlsson and van ...