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Mixed signals : investment distortions with adverse selection
Darst, R. Matthew; Refayet, Ehraz - 2019
We study how adverse selection distorts equilibrium investment allocations in a Walrasian credit market with two …-sided heterogeneity. Representative investor and partial equilibrium economies are special cases where investment allocations are … trade and investment allocations below perfect information levels. The degree of heterogeneity between informed agents' type …
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Moral Hazard and Efficiency in General Equilibrium with Anonymous Trading
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
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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Moldy Lemons and Market Shutdowns
Chang, Jin-Wook; Darst, Matthew - 2022
This paper studies competitive market shutdowns due to adverse selection, where sellers post nonexclusive menus of contracts. We first show that the presence of the worst type of agents (moldy lemons) causes markets to fail only if their mass is sufficiently large. We then show that a small mass...
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Unconventional credit policy in an economy under zero lower bound
Pozo, Jorge; Rojas, Youel - 2021
In this paper we develop a simple two-period model that reconciles credit demand and supply frictions. In this stylized but realistic model credit and deposit markets are interlinked and credit demand and credit supply frictions amplify each other in such a way that produces in equilibrium very...
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Why bank money creation?
Gersbach, Hans; Zelzner, Sebastian - 2022 - This version: April 20, 2022
We provide a rationale for bank money creation in our current monetary system by investigating its merits over a system with banks as intermediaries of loanable funds. The latter system could result when CBDCs are introduced. In the loanable funds system, households limit banks' leverage ratios...
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Incentive contracts and efficient unemployment benefits in a globalized world
Helm, Carsten; Demougin, Dominique - 2012
Several European countries have reformed their labor market institutions. Incentive effects of unemployment benefits have been an important aspect of these reforms. We analyze this issue in a principal-agent model, focusing on unemployment levels and labor productivity. In our model, a higher...
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Second-degree moral hazard in a real-world credence goods market
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2013 - This version: 16 October 2013
Empirical literature on moral hazard focuses exclusively on the direct impact of asymmetric information on market outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call second-degree moral hazard – the tendency of the supply...
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Norms, incentives and information in income insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2015
In this paper, we ask under what conditions norms can enhance welfare by mitigating moral hazard in income insurance. We point out a particular role of norms, namely to compensate for insurers' difficulties in monitoring the behavior of insured individuals. Thus, the functioning of social norms...
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Division of labour and directed production
Ratto, Marisa; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2005
We examine a situation where efforts on different tasks positively affect production but are not separately verifiable and where the manager (principal) and the worker (agent) have different ideas about how production should be carried out: agents prefer a less efficient way of production. We...
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Second-Degree Moral Hazard in a Real-World Credence Goods Market
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2013 - This version: 16 October 2013
Empirical literature on moral hazard focuses exclusively on the direct impact of asymmetric information on market outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call second-degree moral hazard - the tendency of the supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193289