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be bad based on private and public information. The paper provides a reason for why competition in the ratings industry …
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decision makers who are motivated by reputation concerns tend to ‘anti-herding’, i.e., they excessively contradict public …
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find that when agents are concerned about their reputation, consultation results in sub-optimal sharing of information … information truthfully. These results are obtained without assuming either a tournament or a competition between decision makers …
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We consider the impact of history on the survival of a monopolist selling single units in discrete time periods, whose quality is learned slowly. If the seller learns her own quality at the same rate as customers, a sufficiently bad run of luck could induce her to stop selling. When she knows...
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In this paper we introduce concepts that build a theoretical notion of reputation risk and establish the need to extend … our approach to managing such risk.. The existing literature on reputation risk has tended to be reactive and focus on … corrosive may present an occasion for creative management. We suggest that proactive reputation risk policies and practices are …
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order to preserve its reputation of being a good monitor, may actually distort its lending decisions towards greater laxity … between a country and the IMF. The longer this relationship, the stronger the IMF reputation will be affected in case it …
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competition for matches may solve hold-up and coordination problems generated by the absence of complete contingent contracts. In … particular, this paper shows that when matching is assortative and sellers’ investments precede market competition then … coordination failures. Different types of efficiency arise when buyers undertake investment before market competition. These …
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competition, measured as the strength of coverage of a stock from other analysts. The interaction among analysts and investors is …
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Focusing on homogeneous beliefs, we can distinguish two commonly shared ideas that, i) the competition between informed … market, i) the informativeness of prices increases with the degree of competition and, ii) the aggregate and individual …
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This paper presents a pairwise matching model with two-sided information asymmetry to analyse the impact of information costs on endogenous network building and matching by information intermediaries. The framework innovates by examining the role of information costs on incentives for trade...
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