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Discrimination in promotion
Prummer, Anja - 2020
Why do women hit the glass ceiling? Women are hired, but then fail to rise through the ranks. We propose a novel explanation for this pattern, namely preference- and belief-free discrimination. In our setting, an employer can increase effort by inducing differential value distributions for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243271
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A mechanism design approach to the Tiebout hypothesis
Jehiel, Philippe; Lamy, Laurent - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695549
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Eliciting information from a committee
Zapechelnyuk, Andriy - 2012
The paper addresses the mechanism design problem of eliciting truthful information from a committee of informed experts who collude in their information disclosure strategies. It is shown that under fairly general conditions full information disclosure is possible if and only if the induced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517819
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Optimal taxes under private information : the role of the inflation tax
Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro; Waller, Christopher - 2017
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Augmenting markets with mechanisms
Antill, Samuel; Duffie, Darrell - 2017 - Preliminary draft
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786704
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Prizes and patents : using market signals to provide incentives for innovations
Chari, Varadarajan V.; Golosov, Michail Ju.; Tsyvinski, Aleh - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874818
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Private information and optimal infant industry protection
Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; Zhang, Yuzhe - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013281277
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Merger mechanisms
Brusco, Sandro; Lopomo, Giuseppe; Viswanathan, S. - 2004
A firm can merge with one of n potential partners. The owner of each firm has private information about both his firm's stand-alone value and a component of the synergies that would be realized by the merger involving his firm. We characterize incentive-efficient mechanisms in two cases. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011599056
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Harmful signaling in matching markets
Kushnir, Alexey - 2010
Some labor markets have recently developed formal signalling mechanisms, e.g. the signalling for interviews in the job … signalling mechanism is harmful for this environment. Though signals transmit previously unavailable information, they also … facilitate information asymmetry that leads to coordination failures. As a result, the introduction of a signalling mechanism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008737789
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Sequential screening with privately known characteristics of cost distribution
Danau, Daniel; Vinella, Annalisa - 2015
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