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Competition and Price Transparency in the Market for Lemons : Experimental Evidence

Bochet, Olivier - 2020

design an experiment to examine the impact of competition and price transparency in such settings. Consistent with the … theoretical predictions, we find that competition promotes efficiency if bargainers cannot observe each other's price offers …. Contrary to the predictions, however, the efficiency-enhancing effect of competition persists even when offers are observable …

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Negative Externalities and Equilibrium Existence in Competitive Markets with Adverse Selection

von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2009

on existing theories of competition in markets with adverse selection …

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Negative externalities and equilibrium existence in competitive markets with adverse selection

Siemens, Ferdinand von; Kosfeld, Michael - 2009

on existing theories of competition in markets with adverse selection. -- Asymmetric information ; competition ; adverse …

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Non-Exclusive Competition in the Market for Lemons

Attar, Andrea; Mariotti, Thomas; Salanié, François - 2009

We consider an exchange economy in which a seller can trade an endowment of a divisible good whose quality she privately knows. Buyers compete in menus of non-exclusive contracts, so that the seller may choose to trade with several buyers. In this context, we show that an equilibrium always...

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Fighting for lemons: the encouragement effect in dynamic contests with private information

Beccuti, Juan; Möller, Marc - 2020

This paper proposes a tractable model of a dynamic contest where players have private information about the contest's prize. We show that private information helps to encourage players who have fallen behind, leading to an increase in aggregate incentives. We derive the optimal information...

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Interjurisdictional competition with adverse selection

Hernández-Murillo, Rubén - In: Journal of public economics 173 (2019), pp. 85-95

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How to share it out : the value of information in teams

Gershkov, Alex; Li, Jianpei; Schweinzer, Paul - 2014

We study the role of information exchange, leadership and coordination in team or partnership structures. For this purpose, we view individuals jointly engaging in productive processes-a "team"-as endowed with individual and privately held information on the joint production process. Once...

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Heterogeneous noisy beliefs and dynamic competition in financial markets

Boco, Hervé; Germain, Laurent; Rousseau, Fabrice - 2016

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Insurance and asymmetric information in wage contracts : evidence from an online experiment

Herbst, Daniel - 2025

For workers facing uncertain output, fixed-wage contracts provide implicit insurance compared to self-employment or performance-based pay. But like any insurance product, these contracts are prone to market distortions through moral hazard and adverse selection. Using a model of wage contracts...

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Asymmetric information and the securitization of SME loans

Albertazzi, Ugo; Bottero, Margherita; Gambacorta, Leonardo - 2021

Using all loans granted to firms recorded in the Italian credit register, we estimate correlations between risk-transfer and default probabilities to gauge the severity of informational asymmetries in the loan securitization market. First, the analysis confirms the presence of information...

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