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Insurance for natural hazards - earthquakes, hurricanes, or pandemics - is rarely comprehensively adopted without intense government intervention, and even then it is often only a minority of properties or businesses that are insured. Efforts to close this insurance gap include the introduction...
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What happens when employers would like to screen their employees but only observe a subset of output? We specify a model in which heterogeneous employees respond by producing more of the observed output at the expense of the unobserved output. Though this substitution distorts output in the...
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We consider a principal-agent relationship with adverse selection. Principals pay informational rents due to asymmetric information and sell their output in a homogeneous Cournot-oligopoly. We find that asymmetric information may mitigate or more than compensate the welfare reducing impact of...
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through asset building. The theoretical and empirical results indicate that an increase in the initial level of competition … implies greater export incentive. However, over the life cycle of a firm, the role of competition is impacted by the intensity … of capital accumulation and the initial level of wealth. Greater local competition before the entry of firms in the …
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of multi-homing on both sides is mostly ignored in the literature on competition between two-sided platforms. We help … fill this gap by developing a model for platform competition in a differentiated setting (a Hoteling line), which is …
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We integrate a market microstructure model with an exchange competition model with entry in which exchanges supply … strategic substitutes or complements in platform competition. Free entry of platforms delivers a superior outcome in terms of …
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We focus on the estimation of market entry costs that are declining over time and evaluate their impact on competition …
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We develop a dynamic model of hospital competition where (i) waiting times increase if demand exceeds supply; (ii …
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The emergence of competition is a defining aspect of human nature and characterizes many important social environments …
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I show how changes in competition affect the power of reputation to induce sellers to exert effort. The impact of … competition on sellers' incentives is theoretically ambiguous. More competition disciplines sellers, but, at the same time, it … the value of building a reputation through effort. In this framework, more competition depresses hosts' profits and leads …
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