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Information Sharing in Common Agency: When is Transparency Good?

Marco Ottaviani, Northwestern University
Norbert Maier, London Economics

Abstract

When should principals dealing with a common agent share their individual performance measures about the agent's unobservable effort?

Suggested Citation

Marco Ottaviani and Norbert Maier. "Information Sharing in Common Agency: When is Transparency Good?" Journal of the European Economic Association (2009).