ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5011-0828
(2002):
Discrete-time approximations of the Holmström-Milgrom brownian-motion model of intertemporal incentive provision.
In: Econometrica, Vol. 70, No. 6: pp. 2225-2264
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Abstract
This paper studies the relation between discrete-time and continuous-time principalagent models. We derive the continuous-time model as a limit of discrete-time models with ever shorter periods and show that optimal incentive schemes in the discrete-time models approximate the optimal incentive scheme in the continuous model, which is linear in accounts. Under the additional assumption that the principal observes only cumulative total profits at the end and the agent can destroy profits unnoticed, an incentive scheme that is linear in total profits is shown to be approximately optimal in the discrete-time model when the length of the period is small.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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Faculties: | Economics Economics > Chairs > Seminar for Economic Theory |
Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 19425 |
Date Deposited: | 15. Apr 2014 08:50 |
Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020 13:01 |
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Discrete-Time Approximations of the Holmström-Milgrom Brownian-Motion Model of Intertemporal Incentive Provision. (deposited 13. Apr 2005)
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