Simple versus Optimal Contracts
Simple versus Optimal Contracts
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简单合约与最优合约
DOI:
10.1145/3328526.3329591
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发表时间:
2019
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通讯作者:
Talgam-Cohen, Inbal
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作者:
Dütting, Paul;Roughgarden, Tim;Talgam-Cohen, Inbal
We consider the classic principal-agent model of contract theory, in which a principal designs an outcome-dependent compensation scheme to incentivize an agent to take a costly and unobservable action. When all of the model parameters---including the full distribution over principal rewards resulting from each agent action---are known to the designer, an optimal contract can in principle be computed by linear programming. In addition to their demanding informational requirements, however, such optimal contracts are often complex and unintuitive, and do not resemble contracts used in practice. This paper examines contract theory through the theoretical computer science lens, with the goal of developing novel theory to explain and justify the prevalence of relatively simple contracts, such as linear (pure commission) contracts. First, we consider the case where the principal knows only the first moment of each action's reward distribution, and we prove that linear contracts are guaranteed to be worst-case optimal, ranging over all reward distributions consistent with the given moments. Second, we study linear contracts from a worst-case approximation perspective, and prove several tight parameterized approximation bounds.
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2.3
作者:
E. Samuel-Cahn
通讯作者:
E. Samuel-Cahn
DOI:
10.1137/1.9781611973402.99
发表时间:
2013
期刊:
Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Economics and computation
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作者:
S. Dughmi;Nicole Immorlica;Aaron Roth
通讯作者:
Aaron Roth
DOI:
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发表时间:
2018
期刊:
ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
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作者:
J. Kleinberg;Manish Raghavan
通讯作者:
Manish Raghavan
DOI:
10.1137/1.9781611974331.ch72
发表时间:
2015-08
期刊:
--
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作者:
Moran Feldman;O. Svensson;R. Zenklusen
通讯作者:
Moran Feldman;O. Svensson;R. Zenklusen
DOI:
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发表时间:
2017
期刊:
SeCO Workshops
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作者:
S. Dughmi
通讯作者:
S. Dughmi