@techreport{NBERw3316, title = "The Welfare Economics of Moral Hazard", author = "Richard Arnott and Joseph Stiglitz", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "3316", year = "1991", month = "April", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w3316", abstract = {This paper shows that, except in certain limiting cases, competitive equilibrium with moral hazard is constrained inefficient. The first section compares the competitive equilibrium and the constrained social optimum in a fairly general model, and identifies types of market failure. Each of the subsequent sections focuses on a particular market failure.}, }