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Bank Capital Regulation with an Opportunistic Rating Agency

Efing, Matthias - 2013

This paper models the strategic interaction between a rating agency, a bank and a bank regulator who lacks information … about bank asset risk. The regulator can either (1) make bank capital requirements contingent on credit ratings; or (2) set … constrain high risk bank investment without simultaneously reducing overall investment volume. However, if collusion between the …

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Who Should Pay for Certification?

Stahl, Konrad; Strausz, Roland - 2021

Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer - the seller - follows from a nontrivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device,...

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Making Sense of Non-Binding Retail-Price Recommendations

Bühler, Stefan - 2010

We model non-binding retail-price recommendations (RPRs) as a communication device facilitating coordination in vertical supply relations. Assuming both repeated vertical trade and asymmetric information about production costs, we show that RPRs may be part of a relational contract,...

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Asymmetric Information and Overinvestment in Quality

Belleflamme, Paul - 2009

In a standard adverse selection world, asymmetric information about product quality leads to quality deterioration in the market. Suppose that a higher investment level makes the realization of high quality more likely. Then, if consumers observe the investment (but not the realization of...

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Donating Time or Money : Are They Substitutes or Complements?

Hartmann, Bastian - 2012

Decisions to donate time or money for charitable purposes are typically seen as make-or-buy decisions, implying that there should be a clear distinction between individuals engaging in one of these two forms of giving and that this distinction should be somehow linked to opportunity costs. But...

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Information Transmission and Ownership Consolidation in Aid Programs

Dreher, Axel - 2013

example of a “delegation-scheme.” Conversely, project aid represents a more “centralized” type of aid. According to the theory …

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Information Transmission within Federal Fiscal Architectures : Theory and Evidence

Dreher, Axel - 2013

This paper explores the role of information transmission and misaligned interests across levels of government in explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative...

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On the Optimal Use of Correlated Information in Contractual Design Under Limited Liability

Danau, Daniel - 2018

Riordan and Sappington (JET, 1988) show that in an agency relationship in which the agent's type is correlated with a public ex post signal, the principal may attain first best (full surplus extraction and efficient output levels) if the agent is faced with a lottery such that each type is...

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Optimal Revelation of Life-Changing Information

Schweizer, Nikolaus; Szech, Nora - 2021

Information about the future may be instrumentally useful, yet scary. For example, many patients shy away from precise genetic tests about their dispositions for severe diseases. They are afraid that a bad test result could render them desperate due to anticipatory feelings. We show that...

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Volunteering and the Strategic Value of Ignorance

Morath, Florian - 2021

Private provision of public goods often takes place as a war of attrition: individuals wait until someone else volunteers and provides the good. After a certain time period, however, one individual may be randomly selected. If the individuals are uncertain about their cost of provision, but can...

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