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I study a problem of repeated moral hazard in which the effect of effort is persistent over time: each period's outcome distribution is a function of a geometrically distributed lag of past efforts. I show that when the utility of the agent is linear in effort, a simple rearrangement of terms in...
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We study optimal insurance contracts for an agent with Markovian private information. Our main results characterize the implications of constrained efficiency for long-run welfare and inequality. Under minimal technical conditions, there is Absolute Immiseration: in the long run, the...
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We study optimal insurance contracts for an agent with Markovian private information. Our main results characterize the implications of constrained efficiency for long-run welfare and inequality. Under minimal technical conditions, there is Absolute Immiseration: in the long run, the agent's...
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Firms with private information about the outcomes of production under uncertainty may face capital (liquidity … elasticity of scale of the production technology is sufficiently small, then efficient levels of investment and growth can always … aggregate uncertainty. We show that, in addition to a low elasticity of scale for the production function, investors must have …
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We study efficient risk sharing in a model where agents operate linear production technologies with private information … about idiosyncratic productivity. Capital is the sole factor of production, and accumulable. We establish a time …
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auctions. Not only positive reputation ratings but also engaging in communication increases a bidder's probability of winning …This paper studies the role of communication and reputation in market interactions using data from online procurement …Diese Studie analysiert die Einflüsse von Kommunikation und Reputation auf Märkten mit Hilfe von Daten aus Online …
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Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...
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