A Theory of Rule Development

This article develops a model with endogenously coarse rules. A principal hires an agent to take an action. The principal knows the optimal state-contingent action, but cannot communicate it perfectly due to communication constraints. The principal can use previously realized states as examples to d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ellison, Glenn, Holden, Richard
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96770
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3164-0855