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The interpretation of the loss of utility as transport costs in address models of differentiation poses a methodological difficulty. Transport costs implicitly amounts to assume that there is a good neither included in the differentiated sector nor in the composite (numeraire) good of the...
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We study a situation in which an auctioneer wishes to sell an object to one of N risk-neutral bidders with heterogeneous preferences. The auctioneer does not know bidders' preferences but has private information about the characteristics of the object, and must decide how much information to...
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The goal of this paper is to reexamine the optimal design and efficiency of loyalty rewards in markets for final consumption goods. While the literature has emphasized the role of loyalty rewards as endogenous switching costs (which distort the efficient allocation of consumers), in this paper l...
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having to pre-commit capacity. In our game, evolution and learning do not drive out this perception. We back these claims …
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This paper considers a monopolist selling two objects to a single buyer with privately observed valuations. We prove that if each buyer’s type has a non-negative virtual valuation for each object, then the optimal price schedule is such that the objects are sold only in a bundle; weaker...
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and the contractor sign the contract, the latter may bribe the inspector to misrepresent quality. Thus, the mechanism … on the size of the quality misrepresentation, and also uncertainty about the size of the bribe. In all cases, the optimal … contract curtails quality not only for low e¢ ciency contractors but also for the most efficient contractors. Implementation is …
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The booms and busts in U.S. stock prices over the post-war period can to a large extent be explained by fluctuations in investors' subjective capital gains expectations. Survey measures of these expectations display excessive optimism at market peaks and excessive pessimism at market troughs....
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The collapse of so many AAA-rated structured finance products in 2007-2008 has brought renewed attention to the causes of ratings failures and the conflicts of interest in the Credit Ratings Industry. We provide a model of competition among Credit Ratings Agencies (CRAs) in which there are three...
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indeterminate. Only in the latter case do there exist sunspot equilibria that are stable under adaptive learning. A sufficient …
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&D agreements. We study a Bertrand duopoly where firms evaluate the returns of an agreement according to its length. A learning … from creating an agreement. Moreover, as far as learning is modeled as an iterative process, a suitable set of initial …
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