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Article Dans Une Revue Economic Theory Année : 2007

Screening risk-averse agents under moral hazard: single-crossing and the CARA case

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Principal-agent models of moral hazard have been developed under the assumption that the principal knows the agent's risk-aversion. This paper extends the moral hazard model to the case when the agent's risk-aversion is his private information, so that the model also exhibits adverse selection. We characterize the optimal menu of contracts; while its detailed properties depend on the setting, we show that some of them must hold for all environments. In particular, the power of incentives always decreases with risk-aversion. We also characterize the relationship between the outside option and the optimal contracts. We then apply our results to testing for asymmetric information in insurance markets.

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hal-02662918 , version 1 (31-05-2020)

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Bruno Jullien, Bernard Salanié, François Salanie. Screening risk-averse agents under moral hazard: single-crossing and the CARA case. Economic Theory, 2007, 30 (1), pp.151-169. ⟨10.1007/s00199-005-0040-z⟩. ⟨hal-02662918⟩
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