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Policy Makers, Advisors, and Reputation
Wrasai, Phongthorn; Swank, Otto H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
This discussion paper resulted in an article in the 'Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization' (2007). Volume 62, pages 579-590.<P> When hiring an adviser (he), a policy maker (she) often faces the problem that she has incomplete information about his preferences. Some advisers are good, in...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256246
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Policy Makers, Advisors, and Reputation
Wrasai, Phongthorn; Swank, Otto H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
When hiring an adviser (he), a policy maker (she) often faces the problem that she has incomplete information about his preferences. Some advisers are good, in the sense that their preferences are closely aligned to the policy maker's preferences, and some advisers are bad. Recently, some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137032
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Signals in Science - On the Importance of Signaling in Gaining Attention in Science
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
citations. Three types of signals are examined: the author’s reputation (as producer of the idea), the journal (as the broker of … empirical analysis points out that, first, the reputation of journals plays an overriding role in gaining attention in science … third, the reputation of a journal may help to get late recognition (so-called ‘sleeping beauties’) as well as generate so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005795584
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Signals in Science - On the Importance of Signaling in Gaining Attention in Science
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
citations. Three types of signals are examined: the author’s reputation (as producer of the idea), the journal (as the broker of … empirical analysis points out that, first, the reputation of journals plays an overriding role in gaining attention in science … third, the reputation of a journal may help to get late recognition (so-called ‘sleeping beauties’) as well as generate so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257178
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Better Safe than Sorry? Ex Ante and Ex Post Moral Hazard in Dynamic Insurance Data
Abbring, Jaap; Chiappori, Pierre-André; Zavadil, Tibor - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This paper empirically analyzes moral hazard in car insurance using a dynamic theory of an insuree's dynamic risk (ex ante moral hazard) and claim (ex post moral hazard) choices and Dutch longitudinal micro data. We use the theory to characterize the heterogeneous dynamic changes in incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255913
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Asymmetric Information and List Price Reductions in the Housing Market
Wit, Erik R. de; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the 'Regional Science and Urban Economics', 2013, 43, 507-520.<P> In housing markets with asymmetric information list prices may signal unobserved properties of the house or the seller. Asymmetric information is the starting point of many models...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256150
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Better Safe than Sorry? Ex Ante and Ex Post Moral Hazard in Dynamic Insurance Data
Abbring, Jaap; Chiappori, Pierre-André; Zavadil, Tibor - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
This paper empirically analyzes moral hazard in car insurance using a dynamic theory of an insuree's dynamic risk (ex ante moral hazard) and claim (ex post moral hazard) choices and Dutch longitudinal micro data. We use the theory to characterize the heterogeneous dynamic changes in incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137061
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Asymmetric Information and List Price Reductions in the Housing Market
Wit, Erik R. de; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
In housing markets with asymmetric information list prices may signal unobserved properties of the house or the seller. Asymmetric information is the starting point of many models for the housing market. In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of list-price reductions to test for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838556
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Diffusion of Behavior in Network Games Orchestrated by Social Learning
Huang, Jia-Ping; Koster, Maurice; Lindner, Ines - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
The novelty of our model is to combine models of collective action on networks with models of social learning. Agents are connected according to an undirected graph, the social network, and have the choice between two actions: either to adopt a new behavior or technology or stay with the default...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256157
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Penalizing Cartels: The Case for Basing Penalties on Price Overcharge
Katsoulacos, Yannis; Motchenkova, Evgenia; Ulph, David - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
In this paper we set out the welfare economics based case for imposing cartel penalties on the cartel overcharge rather than on the more conventional bases of revenue or profits (illegal gains). To do this we undertake a systematic comparison of a penalty based on the cartel overcharge with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261929