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Sandeep Baliga

Tomas Sjostrom

In the bilateral hold-up model and the moral hazard in teams model, introducing a third party allows implementation of the first-best outcome, even if the agents can renegotiate inefficient outcomes and collude. Fines paid to the third party provide incentives for truth-telling and first-best levels of investment. Our results suggest that models that provide foundations for hold-up and incomplete contracts by invoking renegotiation are sensitive to the introduction of third parties.
Date Published: 2009
Citations: Baliga, Sandeep, Tomas Sjostrom. 2009. Contracting with Third Parties. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. (1)75-100.