The phrase "agent efforts" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to the efforts made by an agent, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "The agent efforts to secure the deal were commendable."
Alternatives: "agent's efforts" or "efforts of the agent".
Others model agent effort as a perfect substitute for other inputs (Laffont and Tirole 1986; Lewis and Sappington 1991).
Dewatripont and Maskin (1995) address the principal's optimal monitoring choice when monitoring is costless and agent effort is an imperfect substitute for purchased inputs.
Dolan may have concluded that Mills, who also worked a number of years for the N.B.A. in addition to his decade with the Knicks, and who got to know a significant number of agents and top players as he vied in recent months for the union job, will be a good person to lead the team's free-agent efforts.
Washington bureaucrats were, in agent Rowley's words, "consistently, almost deliberately thwarting the Minneapolis F.B.I. agents' efforts".
The book provides participants' accounts of this showdown and describes the agents' efforts to dissuade Ms. Lewinsky from calling a lawyer.
Correction: February 22, 2000, Tuesday A picture caption in Business Day yesterday with an article about talent agents' efforts to improve their status misstated the name of a Beverly Hills literary agency and misidentified several of its agents.
The main result is that division is sometimes profitable for the contest designer, in the sense that division brings about increases in lower ability agents' (and occasionally higher ability agents') efforts in exchange for decreases in other agents' efforts.
Although CBBs have shown success in detecting the presence of biological agents, efforts to classify the type of agent based on functional activity have proven difficult because multiple biochemical pathways can lead to the same cellular response.
I sat silently, ignoring the agents' efforts to flip me.
