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employment contract. Each period the employer makes an irrevocable wage offer to the worker who then chooses an effort level. UK …
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the sequence of events is as follows. In a period, t, the supplier offers a contract to the retailer, and the retailer … excess inventory (we assume a lost sales model) to the next period. In period t 1, the supplier designs a new contract based … certain assumptions, we characterize and evaluate the supplier's optimal contract. To do so, we cast our problem as an adverse …
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We show that the stock market may fail to aggregate information even if it appears to be efficient, and that the resulting decrease in the information content of prices may drastically reduce welfare. We solve a macroeconomic model in which information about fundamentals is dispersed and...
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This paper considers functions of contracting other than the protection of relationship-specific investments and the provision of marginal incentives, and applies the theory to explain variation in the form of compensation of over-the-road truck drivers in the U.S. Specifically, we argue that...
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Using a simple empirical strategy, we decode the information in insider trades. Exploiting the fact that insiders trade for a variety of reasons, we show that there is predictable, identifiable "routine" insider trading that is not informative for the future of firms. Stripping away these...
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This paper uses the information contained in the joint dynamics of households' labor earnings and consumption-choice decisions to quantify the nature and amount of income risk that households face. We accomplish this task by estimating a structural consumption-savings model using data from the...
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Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization plans are almost always compromised. Multiple hypotheses are frequently tested. "Significant" effects are often reported with p-values that do not account for...
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If official interventions convey private information useful for price discovery in foreign-exchange markets, then they should have value as a forecast of near-term exchange-rate movements. Using a set of standard criteria, we show that approximately 60 percent of all U.S. foreign-exchange...
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This paper presents a model of information and political regime change. If enough citizens act against a regime, it is overthrown. Citizens are imperfectly informed about how hard this will be and the regime can, at a cost, engage in propaganda so that at face-value it seems hard. This...
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and its investment decisions leads to a systematic premium in the firm's share price relative to expected dividends. Noisy …'s decisions to their own benefit. The managers take advantage of shareholders by taking excessive investment risks when the market …
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