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Price Discrimination in Input Markets: Quantity Discounts and Private Information

Herweg, Fabian; Müller, Daniel - 2013

We consider a monopolistic supplier’s optimal choice of wholesale tariffs when downstream firms are privately informed about their retail costs. Under discriminatory pricing, downstream firms that differ in their ex ante distribution of retail costs are offered different tariffs. Under uniform...

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Screening through Activation: Differential Effects of a Youth Activation Programme

Caroline, Kotakorpi, Kaisa Hall; Liljeberg, Linus; … - 2017

We study the dual role of active labour market policies: First, ALMP may perform a screening role by increasing job …

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Mission Drift in Microcredit and Microfinance Institution Incentives

Biancini, Sara; Ettinger, David; Venet, Baptiste - 2017

We analyze the relationship between Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and external donors, with the aim of contributing to the debate on “mission drift” in microfinance. We assume that both the donor and the MFI are pro-poor, possibly at different extents. Borrowers can be (very) poor or...

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The Causal Effect of Trust

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David B.; … - 2018

Trust affects almost all human relationships – in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people’s beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be...

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Gift-exchange, incentives, and heterogeneous workers

Non, Arjan - 2011

By incorporating reciprocity in an otherwise standard principal-agent model, I investigate the relation between monetary gift-exchange and incentive pay, while allowing for worker heterogeneity. I assume that some, but not all, workers care more for their principal when they are convinced that...

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Selling Dreams: Endogenous Optimism in Lending Markets

Bridet, Luc; Schwardmann, Peter - 2020

We propose a simple model of borrower optimism in competitive lending markets with asymmetric information. Borrowers in our model engage in self-deception to arrive at a belief that optimally trades off the anticipatory utility beneﬁts and material costs of optimism. Lenders' contract design...

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Screening with Multitasking

Dinerstein, Michael; Opper, Isaac M. - 2022

heterogenous response improves screening efficiency: 1) all employees place similar value on staying in their current role; 2) the … announcement reduced the screening efficiency gap — defined as the reduction of screening efficiency stemming from the partial …

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Screening Green Innovation through Carbon Pricing

Ahlvik, Lassi; van den Bijgaart, Inge - 2022

subsidize the socially most valuable green innovations. We find that carbon pricing works as an innovation screening device … perfect screening and generalize results to screening policies under alternative intellectual property regimes and …

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The Optimal Duration of Contracts

Poutvaara, Panu; Takalo, Tuomas; Wagener, Andreas - 2017

We study the optimal duration of contracts in a principal-agent framework with both moral hazard and adverse selection. Agents decide on a contract-specific and non-verifiable investment. Incentive compatibility requires that initial contracts, which serve to screen the ability of newly hired...

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Venture Cycles: Theory and Evidence

Gehrig, Thomas; Stenbacka, Rune - 2003

competing financiers undertake their screening decisions in an uncoordinated way, thereby highlighting the role of intertemporal … screening externalities induced by competition among venture capitalists as a structural source of instability. We show that … uncoordinated screening behavior of competing financiers is an independent source of fluctuations inducing venture investment cycles …

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