Contracting for information under imperfect commitment

Contracting for Information under Imperfect Commitment

We study optimal contracting under imperfect commitment in a model with an uninformed principal and an informed agent. The principal can commit to pay the agent for his advice but retains decision-making authority. Under an optimal contract, the principal should (a) never induce the agent to fully reveal what he knows— even though this is feasible— and (b) never pay the agent for imprecise info...

Central Bank Commitment under Imperfect Information∗

I study optimal monetary policy when both the central bank and the private sector have imperfect information about the underlying economy. I model forward guidance as providing the central bank’s own forecast on optimal policy conditional on its own imperfect information. When the private sector has rational expectation, it is able to infer the imperfect information held by the central bank fro...

Contracting with imperfect commitment and noisy communication

This paper provides new analytical tools for studying principal-agent problems with adverse selection and limited commitment. By allowing the principal to use general communication devices we overcome the literature’s common, but overly restrictive focus on one-shot, direct communication. In addition, general communication devices solve two fundamental problems of contracting with imperfect com...

Dynamic Contracting under Imperfect Public Information and Asymmetric Beliefs∗

We develop a dynamic principal–agent model to show how imperfect public information and asymmetric beliefs, asymmetric risk attitudes, complementary actions by both parties, and inter-temporal adverse selection arising from the agent’s unobservable actions interact to affect optimal dynamic contracts. Our continuous-time formulation of the model, which features both “hidden actions” and “hidden...

Contracting for Product Support under Information Asymmetry