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Benefiting from Bias: Delegating to Encourage Information Acquisition
Ian Ball, Xin Gao
A principal delegates decisions to a biased agent. Payoffs depend on a state that the principal cannot observe. Initially, the agent does not observe the state, but he can acquire…
Bauer's Maximum Principle for Quasiconvex Functions
Ian Ball
This note shows that in Bauer's maximum principle, the assumed convexity of the objective function can be relaxed to quasiconvexity.
Comment on Matsushima, Miyazaki, and Yagi (2010) "Role of Linking Mechanisms in Multitask Agency with Hidden Information"
Ian Ball, Deniz Kattwinkel
We correct a gap in the proof of Theorem 2 in Matsushima et al. (2010).
Dynamic Information Provision: Rewarding the Past and Guiding the Future
Ian Ball
I study the optimal provision of information in a long-term relationship between a sender and a receiver. The sender observes a persistent, evolving state and commits to send signa…
A Unified Theorem of the Alternative
Ian Ball
This note presents a unified theorem of the alternative that explicitly allows for any combination of equality, componentwise inequality, weak dominance, strict dominance, and nonn…