Incentives
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Incentives

Motivation and the Economics of Information

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eBook - PDF

Incentives

Motivation and the Economics of Information

About this book

When incentives work well, individuals prosper. When incentives are poor, the pursuit of self-interest is self-defeating. This book is wholly devoted to the topical subject of incentives from individual, collective, and institutional standpoints. This third edition is fully updated and expanded, including a new section on the 2007–08 financial crisis and a new chapter on networks as well as specific applications of school placement for students, search engine ad auctions, pollution permits, and more. Using worked examples and lucid general theory in its analysis, and seasoned with references to current and past events, Incentives: Motivation and the Economics of Information examines: the performance of agents hired to carry out specific tasks, from taxi drivers to CEOs; the performance of institutions, from voting schemes to medical panels deciding who gets kidney transplants; a wide range of market transactions, from auctions to labor markets to the entire economy. Suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying incentives as part of courses in microeconomics, economic theory, managerial economics, political economy, and related areas of social science.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781107035249
eBook ISBN
9781108547956
Edition
3
Topic
Economics
Subtopic
Microeconomics
Index
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface to the Third Edition
  8. 1 Equilibrium, Efficiency, and Asymmetric Information
  9. 2 Basic Models and Tools
  10. 3 Hidden Action
  11. 4 Corporate Governance
  12. 5 Hidden Characteristics
  13. 6 Auctions
  14. 7 Voting and Preference Revelation
  15. 8 Public Goods and Preference Revelation
  16. 9 Matching
  17. 10 Networks
  18. 11 General Competitive Equilibrium
  19. References
  20. Author Index
  21. Subject Index