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superior market information. Pricing authority is more likely to be delegated to agents when the owner lacks monopoly power and …
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given market and time period. We find that the typical price distribution is symmetric and leptokurtic, with a standard …
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market can converge to a Pareto-inferior "bad" equilibrium if there are at least three equilibria, which we suggest has … experiment with strategic pricing if market fundamentals are not perfectly known, increasing the chance of reaching the good …
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Export firms are often assumed to stabilize destination market prices in the face of nominal exchange rate changes in … order to protect market share. We show that standard tests of such pricing to market fail to discriminate against the …
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We look at the life insurance industry to study the properties of long term contracts in a world where consumers cannot commit to a contract. The main issue is how contracts are designed to deal with classification risk. We present a model that captures the main features of this industry. The...
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This paper studies federal auctions for wildcat leases on the Outer Continental Shelf from 1954 to 1970. These are leases where bidders privately acquire (at some cost) noisy, but equally informative, signals about the amount of oil and gas that may be present. We develop a test of equilibrium...
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. I also show that the findings do not simply result from lower factor prices in dense markets, but rather because dense-market …
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Economists argue that rich information environments and formal enforcement of contracts are necessary to prevent market … asymmetric information by estimating the value of information in an illegal market with a particularly rich information structure …: the online market for male sex work. We assemble a rich dataset from the largest and most comprehensive online male sex …
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Using a unique and comprehensive data source, we measure price changes for Microsoft's desktop personal computer software products during the time period July 1993 through June 2001. This paper contributes to a relatively small literature on price measurement of pre-packaged software by...
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This paper empirically investigates the possible market power effects of vertical integration proposed in the …
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