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equality of opportunity criteria push the second-best policy away from an Earned Income Tax Credit and in the direction of a …
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This paper presents a new method for the analysis of moral hazard principal-agent problems. The new approach avoids the stringent assumptions on the distribution of outcomes made by the classical first-order approach and instead only requires the agent's expected utility to be a rational...
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The identification of information problems in different markets is a challenging issue in the economic literature. This paper performs tests of residual asymmetric information in the French automobile insurance market for the 1995-1997 period. This market is characterized by the presence of a...
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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 direct mechanisms for a credence goods expert who can be altruistic or spiteful. The expert has private information about her distributional preferences and possibly also about her customer's needs. We introduce a method that allows the customer to offer separate contracts to...
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important dynamic implications. During credit booms driven by high collateral values (e.g. real estate booms), the economy …We develop a new theory of information production during credit booms. In our model, entrepreneurs need credit to … projects. In equilibrium, the collateralization-screening mix depends on the value of aggregate collateral. High collateral …
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important dynamic implications. During credit booms driven by high collateral values (e.g. real estate booms), the economy …We develop a new theory of information production during credit booms. In our model, entrepreneurs need credit to … projects. In equilibrium, the collateralization-screening mix depends on the value of aggregate collateral. High collateral …
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important dynamic implications. During credit booms driven by high collateral values (e.g. real estate booms), the economy …We develop a new theory of information production during credit booms. In our model, entrepreneurs need credit to … projects. In equilibrium, the collateralization-screening mix depends on the value of aggregate collateral. High collateral …
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