A Model of Selection and Policy Concerns
研究委托人如何利用代理人避免责备或分享功劳的动机，在获得代理人帮助的同时将政策向自己有利方向调整，即使这会降低自己被选中的概率。
Abstract A principal designs a policy by weighing the goals she shares with an agent and those that divide them. The policy’s success depends on the principal’s unknown quality and the agent’s decision to help. After the policy succeeds or fails, a committee awards a prize to the actor with the higher expected quality. In equilibrium, the agent helps to avoid blame for failure or share credit for success. The principal benefits from exploiting the agent’s selection concerns to shift the policy in her favour while obtaining the agent’s help, even if doing so lowers the probability she is selected.