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quality is learned slowly. If the seller learns her own quality at the same rate as customers, a sufficiently bad run of luck … could induce her to stop selling. When she knows her quality, a good seller never stops selling. Furthermore, a seller with …
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When fairly homogeneous taxpayers are affected by common income shocks, a tax agency’s optimal auditing strategy consists of auditing a low-income declarer with a probability that (weakly) increases with the other taxpayers’ declarations. Such policy generates a coordination game among...
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investors, and noise traders. Informed investors privately observe an aggregate risk factor affecting the probabilities of … is prevented by noise traders. We relax the usual assumption of normally distributed asset payoffs and allow for assets …
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I present a model of social learning over an exogenous, directed network that may be readily nested within broader …
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We estimate the effect of consumer search on the price of the purchased product in a physical store environment. We implement the analysis using a unique data set obtained from radio frequency identification tags, which are attached to supermarket shopping carts. This technology allows us to...
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This work investigates both theoretically and empirically how the behaviour of financial analysts is affected by competition, measured as the strength of coverage of a stock from other analysts. The interaction among analysts and investors is modelled as a dynamic cheap talk game. The...
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, after learning that outcome. This paper identifies the optimal contracting arrangement and the circumstances under which …±ciently uncertain of their quality at the time of hiring a certification intermediary and if the decision to get a rating is not …
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common to argue that this would be inconsistent with Bayesian-learning and common priors. In this paper, we not only show …
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quantities for each division. The quality of communication depends on whether headquarters sets prices or quantities. This is the …
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