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Contracting on Networks

Working paper
Author/s: 
Mohamed Belhaj, Frédéric Deroïan
Issue number: 
2015-01
Series: 
AMSE Working Papers
Publisher: 
Aix-Marseille School of Economics
Year: 
2015
Working Paper [1]
A principal offers bilateral contracts to a set of agents organized in a network conveying synergies, in a context where agents' efforts are observable and where the principal's objective increases with the sum of efforts. We characterize optimal contracts as a function of agents' positions on the network. The analysis shows that contract enforceability is key to understand optimality. We also examine linear contracting and we analyze the situation where the principal is constrained to contract with a single agent on the network. Last, we extend this setting to network entry.
Tags: 
Network Games [2]

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[1] http://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/sites/default/files/_dt/2012/wp_2015_-_nr_01.pdf [2] http://www.coalitiontheory.net/research-areas/network-games