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Project Citation: 

Castro-Pires, Henrique, Chade, Hector, and Swinkels, Jeroen. Code for: “Disentangling Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection.” Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-12-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E193349V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary While many real-world principal-agent problems have both moral hazard and adverse selection, existing tools largely analyze only one at a time. Do the insights from the separate analyses survive when the frictions are combined? We develop a simple method–decoupling–to study both problems at once. When decoupling works, everything we know from the separate analyses carries over, but interesting interactions also arise. We provide simple tests for whether decoupling is valid. We develop and numerically implement an algorithm to calculate the decoupled solution and check its validity. We also provide primitives for decoupling to work, and analyze several extensions.

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Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms moral hazard; adverse selection
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
      D86 Economics of Contract: Theory
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