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all, in a sense to be made precise. -- Asymmetric Information ; Learning by Doing ; Regulation …
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regulation measures -- disclosure and fines for unsuitable advice -- reduce commission payments and improve advice. None of the … regulation measures result in lower commissions and more suitable advice, however, and advice is equally biased in all treatments …
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This paper investigates the design of incentives in a dynamic adverse selection framework when agents' production technologies display learning effects and agents' rate of learning is private knowledge. In a simple two-period model with full commitment available to the principal, we show that...
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This paper investigates the design of incentives in a dynamic adverse selection framework when agents' production technologies display learning effects and agents' rate of learning is private knowledge. In a simple two-period model with full commitment available to the principal, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315554
In an industry where regulated firms interact with unregulated suppliers, we investigate the welfare effects of a merger between regulated firms when cost synergies are uncertain before the merger and their realization becomes private information of the merged firm. The optimal merger policy...
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economics of regulation, it then points out generic information and transaction cost problems of regulatory policy making. An … transaction-cost-political approaches. There has been some progress in recent years in developing such a "new economic theory of … federalism". Basic ideas and some insights of this theory are discussed with regard to the appropriate "federal" allocation of …
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all, in a sense to be made precise. -- Asymmetric Information ; Learning by Doing ; Regulation …
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I compare certification and self-regulation, two widely used quality assurance mechanisms in markets where consumers do … certification fee. Self-regulation is a mechanism in which a club of firms in the industry adhere (or not) to a self-imposed code of …
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-functioning marketplaces depend on the vibrant flow of accurate reputational information, and how misdirected regulation of reputational … information could harm marketplace mechanisms. It then explores some challenges created by the existing regulation of reputational …
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