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Government Guarantees and Bank Risk Taking Incentives

Fischer, Markus - 2014

This paper analyzes the effect of the removal of government guarantees on bank risk taking. We exploit the removal of guarantees for German Landesbanken which results in lower credit ratings, higher funding costs, and a loss in franchise value. This removal was announced in 2001, but...

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Labor Market Equilibrium with Public Employment Agency

Holzner, Christian; Watanabe, Makoto - CESifo - 2015

We develop and empirically test a labor market model with Public Employment Agencies (PEA) in order to understand why not all vacancies use the costless services provided by the PEA. We show that both the search market and the PEA can be active in equilibrium. In such an equilibrium, workers...

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Inventory Control and Intermediation in Global Supply Chains

Qu, Zhan; Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - CESifo - 2015

The paper develops a simple theoretical model of inventory control in global supply chains. It identifies a role for intermediaries in managing inventory, and shows that inserting an intermediary as an additional link in a supply chain is profitable when demand volatility is high. It also...

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Platform Intermediation in a Market for Differentiated Products

Galeotti, Andrea; Gonzales, José Luis Moraga - CESifo - 2008

We study a two-sided market where a platform attracts firms selling differentiated products and buyers interested in those products. In the unique subgame perfect equilibrium of the game, the platform fully internalizes the network externalities present in the market and firms and consumers all...

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Two-Sided Markets and Electronic Intermediaries

Jullien, Bruno - CESifo - 2004

The object of this paper is to discuss on-line intermediation from the perspective of two-sided markets. It builds a … simple model of the intermediation activity when trading partners are involved in a commercial relationship and uses it to … part concentrates on a monopoly intermediation service and discusses both efficient pricing and monopoly pricing. The …

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World Market Access of Emerging-Market Firms: The Role of Foreign Ownership and Access to External Finance

Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - CESifo - 2013

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...

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Platform Intermediation in a Market for Differentiated Products

Galeotti, Andrea - 2008

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Marketmaking Middlemen

Gautier, Pieter - 2016

This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode …. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a … other. In our model, buyers and sellers can simultaneously search in an outside market and use the intermediation service …

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Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard with Multidimensional Types

Kwon, Suehyun - 2017

This paper studies a contracting problem where agents' cost of actions is private information. With two actions, this leads to a two-dimensional screening problem with moral hazard. There is a natural one-dimensional ordering of types when there is both adverse selection and moral hazard....

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Secrecy Jurisdiction

Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2015

This paper surveys tax haven legislation and links the literature on tax havens to the literature on asymmetric information. I argue that the core aim of tax haven legislation is to create private information (secrecy) for the users of tax havens. This leads to moral hazard and transaction costs...

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