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Berger, Helge; Haan, Jakob de; Inklaar, Robert - CESifo - 2003

Soon, euro area membership could more than double, with the vast majority of accession countries being quite different in economic terms compared with current members. Under the current decision-making system, this can lead to high decisionmaking costs and there is a risk that monetary policy...

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Collateral and its Substitutes in Emerging Markets' Lending

Menkhoff, Lukas; Neuberger, Doris; Rungruxsirivorn, Ornsiri - CESifo - 2011

Due to opaque information and weak enforcement in emerging loan markets, the need for collateral is high, whereas … borrowers lack adequate assets to pledge as collateral. How is this puzzle solved? We find for a representative sample from … Northeast Thailand that indeed most loans do not include any tangible assets as collateral. Instead, lenders enforce collateral …

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Financial Frictions and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Microdata

Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2015

identify two possible transmission channels from financial shocks to FDI: (i) a collateral channel, whereby changes in the … value of collateral affect investors’ ability to borrow; and (ii) a lending channel, whereby changes in bank health affect …

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Market Transparency, Adverse Selection, and Moral Hazard

Klein, Tobias J.; Lambertz, Christian; Stahl, Konrad O. - CESifo - 2013

We study the effects of improvements in market transparency on eBay on seller exit and continuing sellers’ behavior. An improvement in market transparency by reducing strategic bias in buyer ratings led to a significant increase in buyer valuation especially of sellers rated poorly prior to...

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Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

Bastani, Spencer; Blumkin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - CESifo - 2014

In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...

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Signing Distortions in Optimal Tax and other Adverse Selection Problems with Random Participation

Jacquet, Laurence; Lehmann, Etienne; Linden, Bruno Van der - CESifo - 2012

We develop a methodology to sign output distortions in the random participation framework. We apply our method to monopoly nonlinear pricing problem, to the regulatory monopoly problem and mainly to the optimal income tax problem. In the latter framework, individuals are heterogeneous across two...

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Wage Dispersion and Labor Turnover with Adverse Selection

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Kaas, Leo - CESifo - 2011

We consider a model of on-the-job search where firms offer long-term wage contracts to workers of different ability. Firms do not observe worker ability upon hiring but learn it gradually over time. With sufficiently strong information frictions, low-wage firms offer separating contracts and...

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Asset Auctions, Information, and Liquidity

Vives, Xavier - CESifo - 2010

A model is presented of a uniform price auction where bidders compete in demand schedules; the model allows for common and private values in the absence of exogenous noise. It is shown how private information yields more market power than the levels seen with full information. Results obtained...

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How to Share it out: The Value of Information in Teams

Gershkov, Alex; Li, Jianpei; Schweinzer, Paul - CESifo - 2014

We study the role of information exchange, leadership and coordination in team or partnership structures. For this purpose, we view individuals jointly engaging in productive processes—a ‘team’—as endowed with individual and privately held information on the joint production process....

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Optimal Student Loans and Graduate Tax under Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection

Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Trannoy, Alain - CESifo - 2013

We completely characterize the set of second-best optimal “menus”of student-loan contracts in a simple economy with risky labour-market outcomes, adverse selection, moral hazard and risk aversion. The model combines structured student loans and an elementary optimal income-tax problem à la...

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