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Optimal auditing

Optimal auditing is the study, in economics and game theory, of how a principal should verify reports made by strategic agents when verification is costly. Agents privately observe some piece of information — an income, a loss, a claim, a value — and report it to a principal who cannot observe it directly, but can inspect a report at a cost. Because…

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Costly state verification

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Allocation without monetary transfers

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Costly state verification

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Allocation without monetary transfers

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Optimal auditing

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Optimal auditing → Classifying, Dionne, Giuliano, Picard, They, When
related to Dynamic auditing · 5
Optimal auditing → Auditing, Ravikumar, They, When, Zhang
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Optimal auditingis astudy0.90text
nuclear safeguardsinstance ofand covers applications0.80text
material accountancyinstance ofand covers applications0.80text
data verificationinstance ofand covers applications0.80text
Optimal auditingrelated to Auditing with scoringWhen0.60section
Optimal auditingrelated to Auditing with scoringDionne0.60section
Optimal auditingrelated to Auditing with scoringGiuliano0.60section
Optimal auditingrelated to Auditing with scoringPicard0.60section
Optimal auditingrelated to Auditing with scoringClassifying0.60section
Optimal auditingrelated to Auditing with scoringThey0.60section
Optimal auditingrelated to Dynamic auditingWhen0.60section
Optimal auditingrelated to Dynamic auditingRavikumar0.60section

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