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We analyze managerial contracts (i.e. incentive schemes based on a linear combination of profits and sales) under asymmetric information about costs. In the competitive setting with ex ante symmetric information, standard strategic effects appear. Under adverse selection in both, monopolistic...
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We study an adverse selection model, with a principal and several agents, wherecontracting is under asymmetric information. The number of agents is finite and types are "continuous" and independent. We analyze two settings. In the first one, the performance functions of mechanisms may depend on...
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This paper studies the principal-multiagent model of a firm subject to adverse selection. We focus on agents who have complete information. We propose some desirable properties to be satisfied by mechanisms implementing the first-best in Nash equilibrium: (i) enforceability (a property related...
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We examine an adverse selection relationship in which the principal is unaware of the ex ante distribution of the agent's types. We show that the minimax regret mechanism, which is an incentive compatible and individually rational mechanism that minimizes the maximal principal's regret, requires...
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as a consequence of the dramatic fall in the number of liquidity traders. This issue suggests a strong degree of aversion …
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examine the levels of stock liquidity, trading activity, volatility, and asymmetric information, as well as the order … during trading and non-trading hours. We find that stock liquidity and trading activity significantly improves after the … time to evaluate the earnings news before the market opens, the improvement in liquidity is immediate, caused by higher …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of the corporate cash holding for a sampleof companies listed in the Spanish stock market. The results show that the firms have acorporate cash holding target level, and that this level is greater in companies withgreater cash flows. On the other hand, cash...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between ownership concentration andshares liquidity for a sample of 115 listed … directors,major shareholders and outside shareholders on liquidity. We do not find evidence ofthe influence of liquidity on the …. Therefore,firms with higher ownership concentration present larger informative asymmetry,having less liquidity. Este trabajo …
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liquidity. The main motive of this study is to verify whether the improvements that the advocates of the new trading system have … subjected to empirical evaluation. To do so, the effect that this innovation has had on the indicators of liquidity, returns and … the imposition of the new negotiating system, since a significant worsening wasobserved in liquidity and returns, whereas …
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anomalous returns. Also, it is investigated the determinant factors of the split size, its effects on the liquidity and the … improvement in the assets liquidity. They suggest that market microstructure phenomena bias upward the average abnormal returns …
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