Information risk is an endogenous element of the market dynamics that can be independent from contingent levels of market efficiency. Being structural, it may require to be remunerated by a specific risk premia or by returns from specific portfolio strategies. Drivers of information risk are...

This paper examines the effect of imperfect labor market competition on the efficiency of compensation schemes in a setting with moral hazard and risk-averse agents, who have private information on their productivity. Two vertically differentiated firms compete for agents by offering contracts...

A growing wage gap between immigrant and native-born workers is well documented and is a fundamental policy issue in Canada. It is quite possible that wage differences, commonly attributed to the lower quality of foreign credentials or the deficiency in the accreditation of these credentials,...