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General training by firms, apprentice contracts, and public policy
Malcomson, James M.; Maw, James W.; McCormick, Barry - 2002
Workers will not pay for general on-the-job training if contracts are not enforceable. Firms may if there are mobility frictions. Private information about worker productivities, however, prevents workers who quit receiving their marginal products elsewhere. Their new employers then receive...
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News sources and media bias
Garcia-Pires, Armando J.; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars - 2012
relationship as an informal contract based on trust and punishment, where a news source decides if and how much information to …
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Information markets, elections and contracts
Gersbach, Hans; Müller, Markus - 2011
Politicians may pander to public opinion and may renounce undertaking beneficial long-term projects. To alleviate this problem, we introduce a triple mechanism involving political information markets, reelection threshold contracts, and democratic elections. An information market is used to...
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A game-theoretic foundation for the Wilson equilibrium in competitive insurance markets with adverse selection
Mimra, Wanda; Wambach, Achim - 2011
can be withdrawn after observation of competitors' contract offers. We show that an equilibrium always exists where … consumers obtain their respective Wilson-Miyazaki-Spence (WMS) contract. Jointly profit-making contracts can also be sustained … entry. -- casymmetric information ; competitive insurance market ; contract withdrawal …
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Business groups in emerging markets : financial control and sequential investment
Hainz, Christa (contributor) - 2006
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Active courts and menu contracts
Anderlini, Luca (contributor); Felli, Leonardo (contributor) - 2006
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United but (un)equal : human capital, probability of divorce and the marriage contract
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre; Roeder, Kerstin - 2012
) use of marriage is affected by the possibility of divorce. -- post-marital education ; marriage contract ; divorce …
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Tenant riskiness, contract length, and the term structure of commercial leases
Brueckner, Jan K.; Rosenthal, Stuart S. - 2022
contracts. Theory shows that the possibility of default on a long-term lease generates a risk/lease-length connection. The …
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Observable strategies, commitments, and contracts
Wärneryd, Karl Erik - 2014
We consider rules (strategies, commitments, contracts, or computer programs) that make behavior contingent on an opponent's rule. The set of perfectly observable rules is not well defined. Previous contributions avoid this problem by restricting the rules deemed admissible. We instead limit the...
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The distribution of talent and the pattern and consequences of international trade
Grossman, Gene M. - 2002
In an economy with imperfect labor contracts, differences in the distribution of talent can be an independent source of comparative advantage. I study a world economy with two activities, one in which an individual's contribution to production can be measured accurately and another in which...
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