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This paper proposes the view that financial development and economic growth are linked through the characteristics of technology. The most obvious connection between technology and financial innovation emerges through risk-sharing. Technology is modeled as a distribution over outcomes....
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This paper contributes to the literature comparing the relative performance of financial intermediaries and markets by studying an environment in which a trade-off between risk sharing and growth arises endogenously. Financial intermediaries provide insurance to households against a liquidity...
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yet decide whether to subscribe to a network, and subscribers derive benefits in future periods depending on the network … prevalent in markets with network externalities. Asymmetric \ea\ may exist, but we show that they, if exist, converge to the …
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We model how excess demand or excess supply can be generated in the presence of a social network of interactions, where …
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Competitive agents extract in continuous time from a commons. Capital market access allows them to both save and borrow against their extraction stream. When the commons asset grows more quickly than the privately stored one, multiple equilibria are found for intermediate commons endowments. One...
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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....
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not provide a clear insight on how a modern system of private electronic money would work and how the necessary network …
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formed if members of the coalition are connected on a communication network, or a graph. We offer a characterization of non …-manipulable division rules without any assumption on the structure of communication network. As corollaries, we obtain a number of earlier … characterization results established with the assumption of complete network (complete graph) in various specialized settings. Moreover …
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We model a hierarchy consisting of possibly corrupted agents who process information, and consider the problem of designing the efficient hierarchy structure and configuring the agents who differ in their honesty. If the only role of agents is to report the information to their direct superior,...
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In this paper, we consider the network as an alternative trading environment to the market. The main distinctive … feature of the network transaction is the dependence of buyers' purchasing behavior, which makes all consumers not equally … valuable to a seller. We characterize the optimal behavior of a seller and consumers in a network. A seller's strategy of …
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