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Price Discrimination in Markets for Experts' Services
Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper studies the consequences of price discrimination in a market for experts’ services. In the case of experts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504480
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Towards a Political Economy of Macroeconomic Thinking
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
fiscal policy and reject the hypothesized value of the multiplier. In some cases, autocoherence induces the experts to make …
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The possibility of ideological bias in structural macroeconomics models
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper studies the trade-offs that an expert with ideological biases faces in designing his model. I assume the perceived model must be autocoherent, in that its use by all agents delivers a self-concerming equilibrium. The exercise is carried in the context of a simplified AS-AD model,...
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Experts vs Discounters: Competition and Market Unravelling When Consumers Do Not Know What they Need
Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper studies price competition between experts and discounters in a market for credence goods. While experts can … giving any advice. The unobservability of diagnosis effort induces experts to use their tariffs as signaling devices. This … makes them vulnerable to competition by discounters. We explore the conditions under which experts survive competition by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792449
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Information Acquisition and Transparency in Committees
Gersbach, Hans; Hahn, Volker - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We study a two-period model of committee decision-making where members differ in their levels of efficiency. They may acquire costly information that enhances their ability to make a correct decision. We focus on the impact of transparency. We show that the principal's initial utility is higher...
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On Doctors, Mechanics and Computer Specialists. Or Where are the Problems with Credence Goods?
Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
that the equilibrium behaviour of experts and consumers in credence goods markets sensitively depends on the details of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791194
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Entrepreneurs and New Ideas
Biais, Bruno; Perotti, Enrico C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
technically unfeasible or does not respond to a genuine customer need. To screen good ideas the entrepreneur needs to hire experts … complementary. In such cases the entrepreneur can form a partnership with the experts. Yet very valuable ideas cannot be shared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792312
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Dynamic Female Labor Supply
Eckstein, Zvi; Lifshitz, Osnat - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last fifty years, that of unmarried women remained almost constant....
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Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye; Fried, Jesse; Walker, David I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper develops an account of the role and significance of managerial power and rent extraction in executive compensation. Under the optimal contracting approach to executive compensation, which has dominated academic research on the subject, pay arrangements are set by a board of directors...
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