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affects its policy decision. We show that the learning process gives rise to coordination motives among speculators leading to …
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. Coordination among speculators is sometimes desirable for price informativeness and investment efficiency, but speculators … coordination among speculators and study policy measures that affect patterns of coordination to improve price informativeness and …
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This paper reports results from an experiment studying how fines, leniency programs and reward schemes for whistleblowers affect cartel formation and prices. Antitrust without leniency reduces cartel formation, but increases cartel prices: subjects use costly fines as (altruistic) punishments....
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The paper reviews and evaluates in a non-technical manner the economic and political arguments for and against the two fiscal convergence criteria written into the Treaty of Maastricht and its Protocols. In order to qualify for full membership in Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), net general...
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We analyse the effect of trade spillovers and of international coordination on currency crises. To do this, we present … and the larger the set of multiple equilibria. Coordination decreases the possibility of simultaneous self …-fulfilling speculative crises in the region and reduces the set of multiple equilibria. However, regional coordination, even though welfare …
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This paper compares centralized and decentralized coordination when managers are privately informed and communicate … for coordination improves horizontal communication but worsens vertical communication. As a result, no matter how … important coordination is, decentralization dominates centralization if the division managers are not too biased towards their …
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Switching costs and network effects bind customers to vendors if products are incompatible, locking customers or even markets in to early choices. Lock-in hinders customers from changing suppliers in response to (predictable or unpredictable) changes in efficiency, and gives vendors lucrative ex...
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play in networks is to some extent boundedly rational, in the sense that coordination is influenced by local and individual …
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This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities …, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i … coordination. In particular, specialization is often non-monotonic in the importance of coordination. (ii) Organizations exhibit …
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In this Paper, we provide a novel rationale for credit ratings. The rationale that we propose is that credit ratings can serve as a coordinating mechanism in situations where multiple equilibria can obtain. We show that credit ratings provide a ‘focal point’ for firms and their investors. We...
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