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at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price …
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The paper explains how workers' expectations of being discriminated against can be self-confirming, accounting for the persistence of unequal outcomes in the labour market even beyond the causes that originally generated them. The theoretical framework used is a two-stage game of incomplete...
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We investigate the effects of group identity on hiring decisions with adverse selection problems. We run a laboratory experiment in which employers cannot observe a worker's ability nor verify the veracity of the ability the worker claims to have. We evaluate whether sharing an identity results...
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unique equilibrium, which is separating. Higher-quality sellers post higher prices, so price signals quality. The arrival … higher continuation values. For some parameter values, higher-quality sellers post the full-information price; for other … values these sellers have to post a higher price to keep lower-quality sellers from mimicking them. In an extension, we show …
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In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller is willing to … asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the seller receives no better offers. Despite their prevalence in a … environment with a few simple, realistic ingredients and demonstrate that using an asking price is optimal: it is the pricing …
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This paper presents several economic models that explore the relationships between imperfect information, racial income disparities, and segregation. The use of race as a signal arises here, as in models of statistical discrimination, from imperfect information about the return to transactions...
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This paper shows that the opportunity costs resulting from economic interdependence decrease the equilibrium probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the inverse trade-conflict relationship, but is the opposite...
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analyze three therapeutic classes with different treatment durations and show that the reform led to substantial price … decreases for our lifelong treatment and to less substantial price reductions for our medium duration treatment while we do not …
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A pre-condition for employer learning is that signals at labor market entry do not fully reveal graduates' productivity. I model various distinct sources of signal imperfection - such as noise and multi-dimensional types - and characterize their implications for the private return to skill...
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