Sharing Profits in the Sharing Economy

Speaker: Gu Wang from WPI Time: 11/19/2020, 2:00 pm -2:50pm Zoom:  992 7853 8762 Abstract: A monopolist platform (the principal) shares profits with a population of affiliates (the agents), heterogeneous in skill, by offering them a common nonlinear contract contingent on individual output. The principal cannot discriminate across individual skill, but knows its distribution and aims […]