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Subjective evaluation versus public information
Bester, Helmut; Münster, Johannes - 2013
and not on the public signal. Nonetheless, public information is valuable as it facilitates truthful subjective evaluation …
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Signals sell : product lines when consumers differ both in taste for quality and image concern
Friedrichsen, Jana - 2018
This paper analyzes optimal product lines when consumers differ both in their taste for quality and in their desire for social image. The market outcome features partial pooling and product differentiation that is not driven by heterogeneous valuations for quality but by image concerns. A...
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Communicating subjective evaluations
Lang, Matthias - 2018
? Suppose a manager's evaluation is private information. Justifying her evaluation is costly but limits the principal's scope … for distorting her evaluation of the employee. I show that the manager justifies her evaluation if and only if the … employee's performance was poor. The justification assures the employee that the manager has not distorted the evaluation …
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Testing
Bergbauer, Annika Barbara; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - 2018
We investigate the achievement impact of alternative uses of student assessments. Our dataset covers over 2 million students in 59 countries observed over 6 waves in the international PISA test 2000-2015. Our empirical model exploits the country panel dimension to investigate assessment reforms...
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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : an experiment on voluntary payments, competition, and reputation in markets for expert services
Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2017
Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...
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Signaling motives in lying games
Fries, Tilman - 2021
This paper studies the implications of agents signaling their moral type in a lying game. In the theoretical analysis, a signaling motive emerges where agents dislike being suspected of lying and where some types of liars are more stigmatized than others. The equilibrium prediction of the model...
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A regulatory framework for a policy of sustainability : lessons from the neo-liberal school
Rennings, Klaus (contributor) - 1997
system are derived. The concrete application of these rules leads to recommendations for a policy of sustainability with …
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Maturity shortening and market failure
Thierfelder, Felix - 2012
Motivated by the financial crisis of 2007-2009 several papers have provided explanations for why liquidity may dry up during market stress. This paper also looks at this issue but focuses on the question as to why the liquidity crunch was not uniform across maturities. As funding pressures were...
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Exit options and the allocation of authority
Bester, Helmut; Krähmer, Daniel - 2013
We analyze the optimal allocation of authority in an organization whose members have conflicting preferences. One party has decision-relevant private information, and the party who obtains authority decides in a self-interested way. As a novel element in the literature on decision rights, we...
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Asset encumbrance, bank funding and financial fragility
Ahnert, Toni; Anand, Kartik; Gai, Prasanna; Chapman, James - 2016
How does asset encumbrance affect the fragility of intermediaries subject to rollover risk? We offer a model in which a bank issues covered bonds backed by a pool of assets that is bankruptcy remote and replenished following losses. Encumbering assets allows a bank to raise cheap secured debt...
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