Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22884 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Bonn Econ Discussion Papers No. 6/2004
Publisher: 
University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes optimal incentive contracts for information acquisition and revelation. A decision maker faces the problem to design a contract that provides an expert with incentives to acquire and reveal information. We show that it is in general not optimal to reward the expert if his recommendation is confirmed. The common observation that experts are paid when their recommendation is confirmed can be explained by incomplete information about the expert's cost to increase the precision of his information. We extend the model to analyze contracting with multiple experts, the timing of expertise, and the provision of incentives when the realized state is not verifiable
Subjects: 
Expertise
Forecasting
Incentives
Information Acquisition
JEL: 
D23
D82
D83
J33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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