Meaning principal-agent problem
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principal-agent problem


A source of inefficiency in the way large businesses and governments are operated that occurs because those making decisions (agents) have different goals than those affected by the decisions (princip [..]
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principal-agent problem


A particular game-theoretic description of a situation. There is a player called a principal, and one or more other players called agents with utility functions that are in some sense different from t [..]
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principal-agent problem


is the moral hazard problem facing a principal who enters a contract with an agent whose actions affect the principal's payoff, but they are not directly observable by the principal, or they are [..]
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