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Ambiguity, Optimism, and Pessimism in Adverse Selection Models

Lionel Thomas

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We investigate the effect of ambiguity and ambiguity attitude on the shape and properties of the optimal contract in an adverse selection model with a continuum of types, using the parametric model of ambiguity and ambiguity aversion called the NEO-additive model (Chateauneuf, Eichberger, and Grant, 2007). We show that it necessarily features efficiency and a jump at the top and pooling at the bottom of the distribution. Conditional on the degree of ambiguity, the pooling section may or may not be supplemented by a separating section. As a result, ambiguity adversely affects the principal’s ability to solve the adverse selection problem and therefore the least efficient types benefit from ambiguity with respect to risk. Conversely, ambiguity is detrimental to the most efficient types. This is confirmed in the comparative statics section.
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hal-01199139 , version 1 (15-09-2015)

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Raphaël Giraud, Lionel Thomas. Ambiguity, Optimism, and Pessimism in Adverse Selection Models. 2015. ⟨hal-01199139⟩

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