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I present a model in which individuals compete for a prize by choosing to apply or not. Abilities are private information and in attempt to select the best candidate, the committee compares applicants with an imperfect technology. The choice of application cost, size of the prize and use of...
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, contractual, and legal solutions. Our results show that auctions (competition among many informed buyers) provide a solution to …
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We study the existence of a profitable unemployment insurance market in a dynamic economy with adverse selection rooting in information on future job losses. The new feature of the model is that the insurer and workers interact repeatedly. Repeated interactions make it possible to threaten...
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take excessive risks: As competition intensifies and margins decline, banks face more-binding threats of failure, to which …, destabilizing effect of lower margins outweighs the disciplining effect of competition; moreover, a substantial rise in competition … reduces banks’ incentive to build precautionary capital buffers. A key implication is that the effects of competition on risk …
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The objects for sale in most auctions possess both private and common value elements. This salient feature has not yet been incorporated into a strategic analysis of equilibrium bidding behaviour. This paper reports such an analysis for a stylised model in which bidders receive a private value...
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-binding price requests. Using a laboratory experiment, we examine how competition moderates the way such cheap-talk communication … competition, although some of them become weaker. Our main findings are the following: (i) The ability of sellers to make non … bargaining and in competition; (ii) Competition reduces the informativeness of the price requests and weakens the anchoring …
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We investigate the nature of market failure in a dynamic version of Akerlof (1970) where identical cohorts of a durable good enter the market over time. In the dynamic model, equilibria with qualitatively different properties emerge. Typically, in equilibria of the dynamic model, sellers with...
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We investigate the nature of the adverse selection problem in a market for adurable goodwhere trading and entry of new buyers and sellers takes place in continuoustime. In thecontinuous time model equilibria with properties that are qualitativelydifferent from thestatic equilibria, emerge....
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of low quality, i.e. high risk, loans and therefore reduces the risk of the bank loan portfolio. However, CVaR regulation …
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