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Consider legal uncertainty as uncertainty about the legality of a specific action. In particular, suppose that the threshold of legality is uncertain. I show that this legal uncertainty raises welfare. Legal uncertainty changes deterrence in opposite directions. The probability of conviction...
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Driven by increasing costs in the traditionally-regarded low-cost manufacturing bases (e.g., China), many firms have started to outsource their production to the regions of even lower costs (e.g., Southeast Asia). However, a new environment may involve higher cost uncertainty and severer...
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Using a vertically related multi-layer newsvendors framework this paper analyzes the impacts of market uncertainties and asymmetric information between firms at successive stages of a supply chain on their optimal stocking (and/or pricing) decisions. The asymmetric information along the supply...
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Most of the existing theories of international cooperation implicitly adopted the assumption that defection or cheating are easily detectable, either because the behavior of other actors is directly observable, or the payoffs received by the relevant actors are perfect indicators of past...
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We apply a model of preferences for information to the domain of decision making under risk and ambiguity. An uncertain … unpleasant to think about, an individual tends to be averse to risk and ambiguity. Yet in circumstances in which thinking about … an information gap is pleasant, an individual may exhibit risk- and ambiguity-seeking. The model provides explanations …
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