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fringe. When the competitive fringe is large enough, there exists a unique fully revealing equilibrium, in which the price … high price and mimicking a high quality is not profitable when the competitive fringe is large enough. Since a higher price … effect of asymmetric information and learning on the equilibrium outcomes. More uninformed buyers increases the price …
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resources. These are settings where one does not usually think of market solutions. Core theory has established that price …
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How can we overcome the existing political, economic, and ecological crises that humanity faces? With the notion of the commons, Lukas Peter argues that this form of social organization can provide answers to the shortcomings of centralized states and open and competitive markets. By building on...
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We study political competition in an environment in which voters have private information about their preferences. Our framework covers models of income taxation, public-goods provision or publicly provided private goods. Politicians are vote-share-maximizers. They can propose any policy that is...
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The provision of public goods under asymmetric information has most often been viewed as a mechanism design problem under the aegis of an uninformed mediator. This paper focuses on institutional contexts without such mediator. Contributors privately informed on their willingness to pay...
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We argue that when externalities such as pollution are nonexcludable, agents must be compelled to participate in a “mechanism” to ensure a Pareto-efficient outcome. We survey some of the main findings of the mechanism-design (implementation-theory) literature – such as the Nash...
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