Incentives motivation and the economics of information. - Campbell, Donald E. (Donald Edward) 1943- (Cambridge, [England] Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Contents: Introduction: Asymmetric Information - - Taxi! - - Safety Inspections - - Resource Allocation - - Efficiency - - Joint Ventures - - The Prisoner's dilemma - - Equilibrium - - Introduction to Calculus - - The Composite Commodity Theorem - - Quasi-linear Preferences - - Decision Making Under Risk - - Hidden Action: Shareholders and Managers - - The Savings and Loan Crisis - - Mandatory Retirement - - Moral Hazard and Insurance - - Partnerships - - The Owner-Employee Relationship - - Agency Theory - - Hidden Characteristics: Voting - - Public Goods - - The Firm's Quality Choice - - Publish or Perish - - Job-Market Signaling - - The Market for Lemons - - Bargaining - - Competitive Insurance Markets - - Reputation: Competition and Reputation - - Basketball is a Zero-sum Game; so is Football - - Subgame-perfect Equilibria - Partnerships - - The Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma Game - - Friedman's Theorem for Infinitely Repeated Games - - Resource allocation: Private Goods: A Simple Model of Resource allocation - - The Arrow-Debreu Economy - - The First Welfare Theorem - - Nonconvex Economies - - Price Taking Behavior - - Implementation - - Common Property Resources - - Resource Allocation: Public Goods: Plurality Voting - - Elections with a Variable Number of Votes - - Pareto Optimality - - Fireworks - - Benefit Taxation - - The Groves-Clarke Mechanism - - The Budget Surplus - - Shortcomings of the Groves-Clarke Mechanism - - The Groves-Clarke Mechanism with a Continuum of Options - - An Impossibility - - The Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem: Introduction - - Proof of the Theorem - - Examples - - The Revelation Principle - - Incentives, Efficiency, and Social Cost: Resource Allocation - - Constrained Optimization - - A Computer Network - - Tort Law - - The Groves-Clarke Mechanism - - Shareholders and Managers - - The Vickrey Auction - - A Derivation of Social Cost Pricing - - Relation to the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem.
Keywords: Social choice -- Mathematical models