Eva I. Hoppe and Patrick W. Schmitz
Economics Letters, Vol. 107 (1), 2010, 58-62.
Abstract. We study the effect of additional private information in an agency model with an endogenous information structure. If more private information becomes available to the agent, this may hurt the agent, benefit the principal, and affect the total surplus ambiguously.
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