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private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The …
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explain the apparent misallocation of resources with lobbying activities or power struggles. We show that diversification can … cash flow. Asymmetries in size and growth prospects increase the diversification discount. …
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higher payoffs in the game when the talk is one-way as the truthful reports facilitate desired coordination. …
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coordination. In a fixed interaction treatment, a vast majority of subjects quickly coordinates on the inefficient outcome. In a …
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perceive a fundamental parameter with noise. We focus on 2 x 2 coordination games, which generate multiple equilibria when …
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A positive relationship between firm size and product diversification is a long-standing stylized fact. However, so far … assets of firms, which affect marginal costs or perceived quality of goods within a firm s product line, play a key role for …
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diversification as an essential aspect of national risk management aimed at promoting efficiency, growth, and welfare. The paper first … presents economic and political diversification side by side in a cross-country framework and discusses how they interact and … effects of insufficient economic and insufficient political diversification. Dominated for decades by the fishing industry …
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We study the investor behavior on a leading peer-to-business lending platform and find evidence of two new investment biases - a default shock bias and a deep market bias. First, we find investors to stop investing in new loans and to cease from diversifying their portfolio after experiencing a...
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. In the longer run, however, a trade-off between diversification and climate action emerges. We derive the optimal carbon …
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Field evidence suggests that agents belonging to the same group tend to behave similarly, i.e., behavior exhibits social interaction effects. Testing for such effects raises severe identification problems. We conduct an experiment that avoids these problems. The main design feature is that each...
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