Gaming and strategic opacity in incentive provision

We study the benefits and costs of “opacity” (deliberate lack of transparency) of incentive schemes as a strategy to combat gaming by better informed agents. In a two‐task moral hazard model in which only the agent knows which task is less costly, the agent has an incentive to focus his effort on th...

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Main Authors: Ederer, F, Holden, R, Meyer, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018