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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Video about Principal-Agent model and associated Powerpoint
This is the video I mentioned in class. I made a slight goof in the recording, so there is more black on the sides than there should be. If you watch it full screen and on a computer it shouldn't matter. On a phone, it might be too small. This is much more detail than I provided in class last week. It covers the algebra of the two state model and that is done in some depth. On the last slide there is an embedded spreadsheet that gives the graphical approach to the same model. It might be too much for you. The Excel homework (which I hope to post tomorrow) does the graphical approach in a step by step manner.
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On the slides titled "Characterizing the High Effort Solution" (6:25) you talk about the IR and IC constraints binding. I don't understand what it means for the constraints to bind. Can you explain this?
ReplyDeleteThe constraints are written as inequalities. They are of the form
ReplyDelete(IR) the expected utility of an agent taking high effort is greater than or equal to the utility of the outside option, and
(IC) the expected utility of an agent taking high effort is greater than or equal to the expected utility of an agent taking low effort.
The constraint binds means that at the optimum the constraint holds as an equality.