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Global games of regime change -- that is, coordination games of incomplete information in which a status quo is …
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transparency is optimal. This is because more transparency facilitates more effective coordination, which is valuable from a social … ambiguity becomes optimal if there is a high risk that more transparency will lead to coordination failures …
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We present a model of a financial market where some traders are "cursed" when choosing how much to invest in a risky asset, failing to fully take into account what prices convey about others' private information. Cursed traders put more weight on their private signals than rational traders. But...
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We analyze an infinite stage, alternating offer bargaining game in which the buyer knows the gains from trade but the seller does not. Under weak assumptions the game has a unique candidate Perfect Sequential Equilibrium, and it can be solved by backward induction. Equilibrium involves the...
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because decentralized trading impedes communication and, in so doing, opens the door to self-fulfilling beliefs despite the … uniqueness of the equilibrium. In line with Keynesian thinking, these fluctuations may be attributed to "coordination failures …
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We show that inefficiencies from having separate markets to correct an environmental externality are significantly mitigated when firms participate in an integrated product market. Firms take into account the distribution of externality prices and reallocate output from markets with high prices...
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are higher when firms can initiate non-contractible innovative investments that enhance the value of their stakeholder … relationships. Stakeholder effects of transparency are especially important for younger firms with less established track records (e …
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When is it possible for one person to persuade another to change her action? We take a mechanism design approach to this question. Taking preferences and initial beliefs as given, we introduce the notion of a persuasion mechanism: a game between Sender and Receiver defined by an information...
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We study the role of commitment in communication and its interactions with rules, which determine whether or not …
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information. Can a bargaining environment that facilitates or restricts communication alleviate these costs? We exploit a unique … platform introduced unstructured communication allowing buyers and sellers on the desktop version of the site, but not the …, using text analysis, that the dynamics are consistent with repeat players learning how to use communication in bargaining …
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