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We present and experimentally test a mechanism that provides a simple, natural, low cost, and realistic solution to the problem of compliance with socially determined efficient actions, such as contributing to a public good. We note that small self-governing organizations often place enforcement...
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The foundations of incomplete contracts have been questioned using or extending the subgame perfect implementation approach of Moore and Repullo (1988). We consider the robustness of subgame perfect implementation to the introduction of small amounts of asymmetric information. We show that...
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In this paper we study how volatility in monetary policy affects economic performance in the presence of endogenously chosen information structures. To isolate the effects produced by the interaction of uncertainty in monetary policy and (possibly) asymmetric information, we consider a model in...
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We define and study transparency, credibility, and reputation in a model where the central bank's characteristics are … the sense that it induces lower inflation and employment than expected. Increased transparency makes the bank's reputation …
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I develop a model in which sovereign debtors repay debt in order to maintain a reputation for repayment. Repayment …
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When do scientists and other knowledge workers organize into collaborative teams and why do they do so for some projects and not others? At the core of this important organizational choice is, we argue, a tradeoff between the productive efficiency of collaboration and the credit allocation that...
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We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one's peers and others. The … central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that … overall quality matters for reputation, does the quality of an individual's most important exposure have an extra effect on …
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Friedman (1962) argued that a free market in which schools compete based upon their reputation would lead to an …: school reputation in the spirit of Holmstrom (1982). The first result is that if schools cannot select students based upon …
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which firms slant their reports toward the prior beliefs of their customers in order to build a reputation for quality. Bias …
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This paper analyzes a reputational equilibrium in a model in which nominally denominated sovereign debt serves to shift risk associated with the unpredictability of tax revenues from the sovereign to its lenders. The analysis answers the following set of related questions: Why would a sovereign...
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