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How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents different facets and in theory has ambiguous effects on corporate transparency. On the one hand, by exposing firms to more product market competition, it could discourage discretionary disclosure. On the...
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the consolidation of fishing effort, coordination of harvest activities, sharing of information and provision of shared …
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, agents are assumed to have asymmetric information, which rules out recontracting. We have two main results. First, in the …
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This paper argues that worker cooperatives are prone to redistribution among members, and that this redistribution distorts incentives. I assume that employment contracts are incomplete. In the model cooperative members pay in a capital contribution to purchase equipment. They then receive...
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This paper assesses different organizational forms in terms of their ability to generate information about investment … likely to be attractive when information about individual projects is soft' and cannot be credibly transmitted. Moreover …, holding fixed firm size, soft information also favors flatter organizations with fewer layers of management. In contrast …
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The distance between small firms and their lenders in the United States is increasing. Not only are firms choosing more distant lenders, they are also communicating with them in more impersonal ways. After documenting these systematic changes, we demonstrate that they do not stem from small...
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We introduce information frictions into a tractable quantitative multi-country multi-sector model with global value …' information sets with new quarterly data containing the frequencies of country-industry-specific economic news reports by 11 … information frictions are amplified by the global production network. These information frictions appear as correlated labor …
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resistant to retractions (the revoking of earlier information). Our experimental design allows us to identify updating from … retractions - unlearning - and to compare it with updating from equivalent new information - learning. Across different kinds of … from equivalent new information. While we document a number of well-known biases in belief updating in our data, our …
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A model of interest rate movements in response to new information on the money stock is developed.The model, which …
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This paper shows how recent developments in the Economics of Information can provide insights into economic relations …
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