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Which is the more profitable way to sell a company: a public auction or an optimally structured negotiation with a smaller number of bidders? We show that under standard assumptions the public auction is always preferable, even if it forfeits all the seller's negotiating power, including the...
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, and test its implications using millions of online bargaining interactions. Items listed at multiples of $100 receive …Can sellers credibly signal their private information to reduce frictions in negotiations? Guided by a simple cheap …
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loss for both sides. One implication is informational homophily: a receiver can rationally prefer to obtain information …
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This paper explores environments in which either the revelation or diffusion of information, or its incorporation into … methodology and for understanding the process by which stock prices incorporate information. Two environments are highlighted …. First, information is often not revealed in one announcement but rather through a process of gradual public revelation …
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Using information on the sales of debt claims for 132 U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, we show that large trade … pronounced for more opaque distressed firms, when trade creditors' information advantage is likely largest. This evidence shows … that suppliers that extend significant amounts of trade credit hold private information about their trade partners. Trade …
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tariffs that are strictly below their bound rates. When private information is persistent through time, an enforcement …-optimal tariff, in order to conceal weakness. It also suggests a new information-based theory of gradualism in trade agreements …
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A model of interest rate movements in response to new information on the money stock is developed.The model, which …
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Using data from SEC filings, I show that the typical bank loan is renegotiated five times, or every nine months. The pricing, maturity, amount, and covenants are all significantly modified during each renegotiation, whose timing is governed by the financial health of the contracting parties and...
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This paper presents a wage bargaining model in which the employer and employee are each uncertain about the other …
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We analyze an infinite stage, alternating offer bargaining game in which the buyer knows the gains from trade but the … length of bargaining …
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