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of the state's extractive technology. We posit further that this extractive technology is determined by the transparency … transparency of the new farming technology. We then apply our theory to explain key institutional features that distinguished …
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We propose a theory by which geographic variations in the transparency of the production process explain cross … geography and these institutions, we posit, is via the effect of transparency on the state's extractive capacity. We apply our …
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We consider a financing game with costly enforcement based on Townsend (1979), but where monitoring is non-contractible and allowed to be stochastic. Debt is the optimal contract. Moreover, the debt contract induces creditor leniency and strategic defaults by the borrower on the equilibrium...
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of transparency is inefficiently low if the social value of secondary market liquidity exceeds its private value. We … analyze various types of public intervention — mandatory transparency standards, provision of liquidity to distressed banks or … secondary market price support — and find that they have quite different welfare implications. Finally, transparency is greater …
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This Paper studies the incentives for transparency under different forms of corporate governance in a context of … decision on the degree of transparency in a context of product market competition. When firms seeking outside finance resort to … transparency. More transparency about a firm's competitive position has both strategic advantages and disadvantages: in general …
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The paper analyzes a very stylized model of crises and demonstrates how the degree of strategic complementarity in the actions of investors is an important determinant of fragility. It is shown how the balance sheet composition of a financial intermediary, parameters of the information structure...
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This paper studies product market competition under a strategic transparency decision. Dominant investors can influence … information collection in the financial market, and thereby corporate transparency, by affecting market liquidity or the cost of … information collection. More transparency on a firm's competitive position has both strategic advantages and disadvantages: in …
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deposits. Transparency and bond market development can eliminate overlending problems and prevent banking crises. …
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A key issue in arbitration, which resolves disputes among parties, involves the procedure for selecting an arbitrator. We take an implementation-theoretic approach and provide theoretical, empirical and experimental analyses of this problem. Our findings highlight the problems with current...
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This paper uses data consisting of students' strategically reported preferences and their underlying true preferences to study the course allocation mechanism used at Harvard Business School. We show that the mechanism is manipulable in theory, manipulated in practice, and that these...
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