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I consider the problem of the efficient provision of a public good with congestion in a setting with asymmetric information. I show, in particular, that when congestion is taken into account, in a wide class of economies it is possible to construct an incentive compatible mechanism that always...
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. The model captures several other features prevalent in infrastructure financing such as government co-investment, tax …
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how communication mitigates this free-riding problem in an investment-timing game. In our baseline investment-timing game … investor of the group bears the costs of investment while everyone in the group benefits if the project reveals high returns … communicate before choosing the investment time. We find that in groups of two players, communication increases cooperation and …
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We study the effectiveness of information design in reducing congestion in social services catering to users with varied levels of need. In the absence of price discrimination and centralized admission, the provider relieson sharing information about wait times to improve welfare. We consider a...
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We study the effect of congestion on monopoly second-degree price discrimination. We provide three results. First, with congestion, the firm does not always provide distinct contracts (i.e., it is not always optimal to price discriminate) and it is more likely for the low-valuation buyer to be...
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