%0 Journal Article %T Low outcomes and the first-order approach to agency problems %A ¨®scar Guti¨¦rrez %J Investigaciones Econ¨®micas %D 2007 %I %X This paper claims that the first-order approach to agency problems can only hold if the likelihood ratio is bounded from below. None of the classic sets of su cient conditions to validate it (Mirrlees-Rogerson (1979-1985) and Jewitt (1988)) guarantees such a condition. %U http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=17331205