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A significant policy concern about the emerging plaintiff legal funding industry is that loans will undermine settlement. When the plaintiff has private information about damages, we find that the optimal (plaintiff-funder) loan induces all plaintiff types to make the same demand, resulting in...
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equilibrium the first lawyer visited demands a higher contingent fee for lower-valued cases, signaling the case�s value to the …
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equilibrium the first lawyer visited demands a higher contingent fee for lower-valued cases, signaling the case�s value to the …
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In this paper we use a signaling model to analyze the effect of (endogenously-determined) third-party non …
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In this paper we use a signaling model to analyze the effect of (endogenously-determined) third-party non …
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We examine the interplay of imperfect competition and incomplete information in the context of price competition among firms producing horizontally- and vertically-differentiated substitute products. We find that incomplete information about vertical quality (e.g., consumer satisfaction) that is...
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paper we show that the combination of multi-agent simultaneous signaling of private information, and the nature of the … commitment to provide greater effort. We find that this non-cooperative, simultaneous signaling need not be wasteful, and can …
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through a credible direct claim; 2) signaling of quality via producer actions that influence buyersÕ beliefs about quality. In … general, these two literatures have ignored one-another. In this paper we argue that disclosure and signaling are two sides of … integration of these two alternatives leads to a number of new implications about disclosure, signaling, firm preferences over …
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We develop and explore a new model of the economics of privacy. Previous work has focused on "privacy of type," wherein an agent privately knows an immutable characteristic. We consider "privacy of action," wherein privacy means that an agent's choice of action is unobservable to others. To show...
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costs that would induce a high-safety firm to choose disclosure over signaling. When the firm�s full marginal cost is …
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