Silent-noisy marksmanship contest with random termination

1986 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Teraoka
Keyword(s):  
Random Termination

scholarly journals Bi-directional replication and random termination

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 2099-2107 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Santamaria
Keyword(s):  
Random Termination

Comment on “Optimal Contract to Induce Continued Effort”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Cao ◽  
Feng Tian ◽  
Peng Sun
Keyword(s):  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Optimal Contract ◽  
Discount Rates ◽  
Optimal Contracts ◽  
Relative Improvement ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Contract Structure ◽  
Random Termination

In this comment, we first use a counterexample to demonstrate that the optimal contract structure proposed in section 4 of Sun and Tian (2018) can be wrong when the two players’ discount rates are different. We then specify correct optimal contract structures, which involve generalizing the contract space to allow random termination. Numerical study with a wide range of model parameters illustrates that such a random termination only occurs sparingly in optimal contracts. Moreover, the suboptimality gap, measured by the relative improvement of the optimal contract over the best contract without random termination, is extremely small. This paper was accepted by Manel Baucells, decision analysis.

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