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framework for corporate insolvency resolution are constantly changing to enhance the efficiency of such mechanisms. This pursuit … contrasts with the lack of specific efficiency data available to both legislators and researchers, there are no solid statistics … to investigate the phenomenon from the perspective of its efficiency, which makes it impossible in practice to …
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Information asymmetries are important in theory but difficult to identify in practice. We estimate the empirical importance of adverse selection and moral hazard in a consumer credit market using a new field experiment methodology. We randomized 58,000 direct mail offers issued by a major South...
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We ask whether the correlation between mortgage leverage and default is due to moral hazard (the causal effect of leverage) or adverse selection (ex-ante risky borrowers choosing larger loans). We separate these information asymmetries using a natural experiment resulting from (i) the unique...
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We study the effects of improvements in market transparency on eBay on seller exit and continuing sellers' behavior. An improvement in market transparency by reducing strategic bias in buyer ratings led to a significant increase in buyer valuation especially of sellers rated poorly prior to the...
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