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Commitment is therefore more valuable when quality is known more precisely. Incentives then are easier to provide because the agent has less room to manipulate the beliefs of the principal. Moreover, in contrast to results under one-period commitment, wage volatility declines as experience...
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The government often provides relief against large risks, such as disasters. A simple, general rationale for this role of government is considered here that applies even when private contracting to share risks is not subject to market imperfections. Specifically, the optimal private sharing of...
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information concerning product risk, and mandatory and voluntary disclosure rules are equivalent …
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incentives to reduce risk of various ways of treating such uncertainty under the liability system are identified using a … (if their probability of causation systematically fell below the threshold) and thus do too little to reduce risk; or they …
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This paper documents several facts on the real effects of economic uncertainty. First, higher uncertainty is associated with a more dispersed distribution of output growth. Second, the relation is highly asymmetric: A rise in uncertainty is associated with a sharp decline in the lower tail of...
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activities and, if so, their efforts to reduce risk. However, the requirements may undesirably prevent some parties with low … assets from engaging in activities. Liability insurance requirements tend to improve parties' incentives to reduce risk when … insurers can observe levels of care, but dilute incentives to reduce risk when insurers cannot observe levels of care. In the …
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should be guided by an economic calculus. That calculus is developed in the theory presented in this article and the actual …
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In a model with multiple Pareto-ranked equilibria we add trade in assets that pay based on the realization of a sunspot. Asset trading restricts the equilibrium set in a way that raises welfare by eliminating equilibria with a high likelihood of disasters. When the probability of a disaster is...
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We analyze the contractual relation between workers and their employers when there is nominal risk. The key feature of … eliminate all nominal risk for the parties (by fully indexing the terms of the contracts to the price level) but they would be …
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Electricity and Information Technology (IT) are perhaps the two most important general purpose technologies (GPTs) to date. We analyze how the U.S. economy reacted to them. The Electricity and IT eras are similar, but also differ in several important ways. Electrification was more broadly...
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