Precontractual Investigation and Sequential Screening
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Keywords
Principal agent; information acquisition; sequential screening;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2013-11-02 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-HRM-2013-11-02 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-MIC-2013-11-02 (Microeconomics)
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