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cs.GT2022
The Sample Complexity of Online Contract Design
Banghua Zhu, Stephen Bates, Zhuoran Yang +3
We study the hidden-action principal-agent problem in an online setting. In each round, the principal posts a contract that specifies the payment to the agent based on each outcome…
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Principal-Agent Hypothesis Testing
Stephen Bates, Michael I. Jordan, Michael Sklar +1
Consider the relationship between a regulator (the principal) and an experimenter (the agent) such as a pharmaceutical company. The pharmaceutical company wishes to sell a drug for…