Adverse Selection and Renegotiation in Procurement
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Review of Economic Studies
- Vol. 57 (4) , 597-625
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2298088
Abstract
As was shown by Dewatripont, optimal long-term contracts under asymmetric information are generally not time-consistent. This paper fully characterizes the equilibrium of a two-period procurement model with commitment and renegotiation. It also analyzes whether renegotiated long-term contracts yield outcomes resembling those under either unrenegotiated long-term contracts or a sequence of short-term contracts, and links the analysis with the multiple unit durable good monopoly problem.Keywords
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