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with type. When network effects are homogeneous, the optimal entry-deterring contract is a flat fee that results in the …
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This paper estimates the prevalence of asymmetric information in a consumer credit market using a field experiment of …
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This paper characterizes optimal income tax and audit schemes in the presence of costly enforcement when the agent is risk averse and not necessarily risk neutral. It is shown that the results under risk-neutrality (Chander and Wilde (1998)) largely hold under risk aversion. We first show that...
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service. This paper analyzes how buyers optimally contract with sellers who vary in their expertise at prescribing service. We … provided they contract sequentially whereby terms are negotiated gradually as the supplier acquires information …
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Abstract The literature on rural credit market has generally assumed that farm households are rationed in their access … to subsidised formal credit. Due to lack of infrastructure and poor access to institutional credit, exploitation of … farmers in interlocked credit market is expected to be high. The distress amount in product selling is more likely to be …
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contract enforcement tool, provide the credit market with information on the quality of the borrower and thus broaden the … (1981) argue that in the face of asymmetric information, under some conditions the equilibrium of the credit market can be … that balance supply and demand for credit, causing credit rationing. Literature of the New Institutional Economics (NIE) in …
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Admati and Perry (1987) derive the equilibrium in a bargaining game between a seller and buyer when the buyer's valuation is private information. They show that, for some parameter values, trade occurs at the Rubinstein (1982) prices given the buyer's true valuation (pl if the buyer has a low...
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Abstract Mandatory convertibles, which are equity-linked hybrid securities that automatically convert to common stock on a pre-specified date, have become an increasingly popular means of raising capital in recent years (about $20 billion worth issued in 2001 alone). This paper presents the...
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This paper shows that monitoring too much a partner in the initial phase of a relationship may not be optimal if the goal is to determine his loyalty to the match and if the cost of ending the relationship increases over time. The intuition is simple: by monitoring too much we learn less on how...
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Punitive damage awards have been widely criticized for generating a plaintiff’s windfall (i.e., a payment in excess of the costs of pursuing the punitive claim), which promotes unnecessary litigation, the escalation of liability insurance premiums and over-deterrence. In an attempt to...
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