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Price Discrimination in Input Markets: Quantity Discounts and Private Information
Herweg, Fabian; Müller, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We consider a monopolistic supplier’s optimal choice of wholesale tariffs when downstream firms are privately informed about their retail costs. Under discriminatory pricing, downstream firms that differ in their ex ante distribution of retail costs are offered different tariffs. Under uniform...
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The Effect of Bank Competition on the Bank's Incentive to Collateralize
Hainz, Christa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
are better able to evaluate a project's risk than entrepreneurs. We study the bank's choice between screening and … collateralization in a model where banks do not have this superior screening skill. In particular, we study the effect of bank …
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Fairness, Adverse Selection, and Employment Contracts
Siemens, Ferdinand von - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
colleagues get more income net of production costs. Screening workers with equal productivity but different fairness concerns is …
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Screening, Competition, and Job Design
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
-sharing, screening opportunities, and competition are important driving forces behind these new forms of work organization. We document … control strategy prevails, while the possibility of screening renders the trust strategy profitable. The introduction of …
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