Golosov, Mikhail, Tsyvinski, Aleh and Werquin, Nicolas (2016) Recursive Contracts and Endogenously Incomplete Markets. In: Handbook of Macroeconomics: Volume 2 Taylor, John B. and Uhlig, Harald (eds.) Elsevier. Chapter 10. pp. 725-841. ISBN 978-0-444-59487-7

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Identification Number : 10.1016/bs.hesmac.2016.03.007

Abstract

In this chapter we study dynamic incentive models in which risk sharing is endogenously limited by the presence of informational or enforcement frictions. We comprehensively overview one of the most important tools for the analysis such problems—the theory of recursive contracts. Recursive formulations allow us to reduce often complex models to a sequence of essentially static problems that are easier to analyze both analytically and computationally. We first provide a self-contained treatment of the basic theory: the Revelation Principle, formulating and simplifying the incentive constraints, using promised utilities as state variables, and analyzing models with persistent shocks using the first-order approach. We then discuss more advanced topics: duality theory and Lagrange multiplier techniques, models with lack of commitment, and martingale methods in continuous time. Finally, we show how a variety of applications in public economics, corporate finance, development and international economics featuring incomplete risk sharing can be analyzed using the tools of the theory of recursive contracts.

Item Type: Book Section
Language: English
Date: 2016
Uncontrolled Keywords: Principal–agent model, Dynamic mechanism design, Recursive contracts, Private information, Limited commitment, Incomplete markets, Revelation Principle, Promised utility, First-order approach, Hidden storage, Lagrangian, Continuous time contracts
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 16 Apr 2020 08:28
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2021 13:37
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:123711
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/33484
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