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Optimal Auditing Under Intermediated Contracting

Gick, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2004

This paper builds on Faure-Grimaud and Martimort’s [Economics Letters 71 (2001) 75-82] analysis of intermediated contracting. I argue that intermediated contracting permits one form of auditing, in which the sub-contract offered to the firm is examined, contingent on the intermediary’s...

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A Note on Firms' Strategic Behaviour During an IPO

Weiss, Pia - EconWPA - 2002

When potential shareholders cannot observe the business conditions of the firms, the latter desiring to acquire capital by an IPO and operating under less favourable business conditions have a strong incentive to appear more successful.

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Efficiency-Enhancing Signalling in the Samaritan's Dilemma

Lagerlof, Johan - EconWPA - 2002

Suppose an altruistic person, A, is willing to transfer resources to a second person, B, if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents' point of view. This is the Samaritan's dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...

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Delivered versus Mill Nonlinear Pricing in Free Entry Markets

Jorge, Sílvia Ferreira; Pires, Cesaltina Pacheco - EconWPA - 2004

This paper discusses a model where consumers simultaneously differ according to one unobservable (preference for quality) and one observable characteristic (location). In these circumstances nonlinear prices arise in equilibrium. The main question addressed in this work is whether firms should...

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Impact of Valuation Ranking Information on Bidding in First-Price

Elbittar, A. Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

low value. Contrary to the theory, buyers are inclined to bid less when they learn they have the high value. Consistent … with theory, the overall proportion of efficient allocations is lower than in the first- price auction before information … regular basis, contrary to the theory’s predictions. …

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Speculation in First-Price Auctions with Resale

Troger, Thomas - EconWPA - 2003

We analyze first-price auctions with two asymmetric bidders, where the winner can offer the good for resale to the loser. One bidder has a private value for the good, the other bidder - the speculator - has zero value. We show that, independently of the resale market rules, the speculator's...

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Efficiency and Information Aggregation in Auctions with Costly Information

Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002

Consider an auction in which $k$ identical objects are sold to $nk$ bidders who each have a value for one object which can have both private and common components to it. Private information concerning the common component of the object is not exogenously given, but rather endogenous and bidders...

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General Equilibrium with Endogenous Securities and Moral Hazard

Braido, Luis H. B. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper studies a class of general equilibrium economies in which the individuals' endowments depend on privately observed effort choices and the financial markets are endogenous. The environment is modeled as a two-stage game. Individuals first make strategic financial-innovation decisions....

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Variable Skill Levels

Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2004

I study the consequences of heterogeneity of skills for the design of an optimal unemployment insurance, using a principal-agent set-up with a risk neutral insurer and infinitely lived risk averse agents. Agents, who are characterised by different productivities or skills, are employed by firms...

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Inventory Signals

Lai, Richard Kum-yew - EconWPA - 2005

Among practitioners, inventory is often thought to be the root of all evil in operations management. The stock market hates it, the media abhors it, and managers have come to fear it. But high inventory levels can also be the result of strategic buying and high-availability strategies. The...

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