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Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper analyzes the impact of labor market competition and skill-biased technical change on the structure of … compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most … perfect competition, the resulting efficiency loss can be larger than that imposed by a single firm or principal, who distorts …

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Bargaining with Informational Externalities in a Market Equilibrium

Drugov, Mikhail - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

complements this pattern is reinforced while under competition in substitutes the principals trade off the benefits of …

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Competitive Screening under Heterogeneous Information

Garrett, Daniel; Gomes, Renato; Maestri, Lucas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We study competition in price-quality menus when consumers privately know their valuation for quality (type), and are … intensity, from perfect competition to monopoly. …

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Team Production in Competitive Labor Markets with Adverse Selection

Kosfeld, Michael; Von Siemens, Ferdinand - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can create externalities among workers, since their utility upon accepting a contract depends on their team’s performance and therefore on their colleagues’ productivity. We study...

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Debt Contracts, Collapse and Regulation as Competition Phenomena

Gersbach, Hans; Uhlig, Harald - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

crucial novel feature is the competition between lenders in their choice of contracts offered. The quality of investment … distribute themselves across all offered contracts. Competition between banks introduces three possibilities for a breakdown of …

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Can Market Failure Cause Political Failure

Aney, Madhav; Ghatak, Maitreesh; Morelli, Massimo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study how inefficiencies of market failure may be further amplified by political choices made by interest groups created in the inefficient market. We take an occupational choice framework, where agents are endowed heterogeneously with wealth and talent. In our model, market failure due to...

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A Large-Market Rational Expectations Equilibrium Model

Vives, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper presents a market with asymmetric information where a privately revealing equilibrium obtains in a competitive framework and where incentives to acquire information are preserved. The equilibrium is efficient, and the paradoxes associated with fully revealing rational expectations...

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Insurance Search and Switching Behavior

Bolhaar, Jonneke; Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

based on managed competition. Although all insurers offer the same basic package (determined by the government), there is …

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Adverse Selection of Investment Projects and the Business Cycle

Reichlin, Pietro; Siconolfi, Paolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

In an economy where entrepreneurs with unequal ‘abilities’ face alternative investment projects, which differ in their degree of risk and productivity, we analyse the Nash equilibrium contracts arising from a banks-borrowers game in the context of asymmetric information. We show that, for a...

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Insider Trading in Credit Derivatives

Acharya, Viral V; Johnson, Tim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Insider trading in the credit derivatives market has become a significant concern for regulators and participants. This paper attempts to quantify the problem. Using news reflected in the stock market as a benchmark for public information, we report evidence of significant incremental...

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