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We analyze two hitherto little studied but salient questions concerning the trinity of asymmetric information, entrepreneurial activity, and the scope of fiscal policy in an open regional economy. First, we use a two period model to analyze the contractual relationship between entrepreneurs and...
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A "folk theorem" originating, among others, in the work of Stiglitz maintains that competitive equilibria area always or "generically" inefficient (unless contracts directly specify consumption levels as in Prescott and Townsend, thus bypassing trading in anonymous markets). This paper...
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We analyze two hitherto little studied but salient questions concerning the trinity of asymmetric information, entrepreneurial activity, and the scope of fiscal policy in an open regional economy. First, we use a two period model to analyze the contractual relationship between entrepreneurs and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136436
framework for the analysis of growth driven by both entry of new firms and productivity improvements by continuing firms. Unlike … productivity improvements by incumbents in response to reduced entry, which may outweigh the positive effect of greater creative … destruction. As the model features entry of new firms and expansion and exit of existing firms, it also generates a non …
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{private signal} correlated with the underlying state, they exchange information over the induced \textit{communication network} until … some additional conditions, also only if) in the induced communication network most agents are a short distance away from … response, it is an equilibrium when the communication network induces asymptotic learning. Moreover, we contrast equilibrium …
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We propose a model in which economic relations and institutions in advanced and less developed economies differ as these societies have access to different amounts of information. This lack of information makes it hard to give the right incentives to managers and entrepreneurs. We argue that...
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