The role of investment rationing by one party to discipline reporting of private information by another is well recognized. Formally, adverse selection models succinctly capture this effect via the crisp information rents vs. efficiency tradeoff. This paper takes a different slant to investment...

In this paper we examine a simple but suggestive setting in which the income number arises naturally (and directly) from competitive markets. While no explicit assumptions are made about individual firm's objectives, it turns out that equilibrium is consistent with the maximization of a number...

We formally establish the link between linear algebra and the double entry bookkeeping system: the system transforms a vector of numerical values corresponding to transaction amounts to a financial statements vector through matrix multiplication. The matrix is called a generator matrix (it is...