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A Bayesian supply function equilibrium is characterized in a market where firms have private information about their uncertain costs. It is found that with supply function competition, and in contrast to Bayesian Cournot competition, competitiveness is affected by the parameters of the...
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This paper analyzes the role of communication between firms in an infinitely repeated Bertrand game in which firms receive an imperfect private signal of a common value i.i.d. demand shock. It is shown that firms can use stochastic, inter-temporal market sharing as a perfect substitute for...
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We study a general static noisy rational expectations model, where investors have private information about asset payoffs, with common and private components, and about their own exposure to an aggregate risk factor, and derive conditions for existence and uniqueness (or multiplicity) of...
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A decision-maker has to elicit information from informed multiple experts about a policy's value. The principal may prevent communication among the agents. However, it may be in the principal's interest to allow communication among them. I assume that communication allows synergies to emerge...
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A model is presented of a uniform price auction where bidders compete in demand schedules; the model allows for common and private values in the absence of exogenous noise. It is shown how private information yields more market power than the levels seen with full information. Results obtained...
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En este documento se analizan dos empresas con actividades muy similares: Boston Chicken, una cadena de más de 1.700 restaurantes especializados en comida casera, y TelePizza, una cadena de más de 700 pizzerías. Ambas crecieron mucho en la década de los noventa y tuvieron un período de...
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En este documento se cuantifica la creación de valor para los accionistas de Endesa (ELE), de Iberdrola (IBE) y Unión Fenosa (UNF) entre diciembre de 1991 y diciembre de 2006. En ese periodo, el aumento de la capitalización (en millardos de euros) fue: ELE 33,4; IBE 26,3 y UNF 10,5. La...
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En los últimos cinco y diez años, la rentabilidad promedio de los fondos de inversión fue inferior a la inflación. A pesar de estos resultados, el 31 de diciembre de 2006, 8.819.809 partícipes tenían un patrimonio de 254.306 millones de euros en los 2.779 fondos de inversión existentes....
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La valoración de una empresa es un ejercicio de sentido común que requiere unos pocos conocimientos técnicos y mejora con la experiencia. Ambos (sentido común y conocimientos técnicos) son necesarios para no perder de vista: ¿qué se está haciendo?, ¿por qué se está haciendo la...
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The average Market Risk Premium (MRP) used in 2008 by professors in the United States (6.5%) was higher than the one used by their colleagues in Europe (5.3%), Canada (5.4%), the United Kingdom (5.6%) and Australia (5.9%). The dispersion of the MRP was high. 15% ofthe professors decreased their...
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