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This paper studies manipulation in cash-settled derivative contract markets. When traders hedge factor risk using cash … good. In equilibrium, manipulation can make all agents worse off. I define two measures of manipulation-induced welfare … losses, which can be estimated using commonly observed market data. Using these measures, I estimate how large manipulation …
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We study a strategic model of dynamic trading where agents are asymmetrically informed over common value sources of uncertainty. There is a continuum of buyers and a finite number n of sellers. All buyers are uninformed, while at least one seller is privately informed about the true state of the...
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This paper studies pre-match investment competition with upper and lower bounds on feasible transfers to sellers in a general signaling environment, where the types of buyers and sellers are private information and the surplus may depend on both types and investments. Bounded transfers create...
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In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller will take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the seller...
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We study a strategic model of dynamic trading where agents are asymmetrically informed over common value sources of uncertainty. There is a continuum of buyers and a finite number n of sellers. All buyers are uninformed, while at least one seller is privately informed about the true state of the...
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This paper studies a decentralized, dynamic matching and bargaining market: buyers and sellers are matched into pairs. Traders exit the market at a constant rate, inducing search costs (frictions). All price offers are made by sellers. Despite the fact that sellers have all the bargaining power...
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higher effort but also to more manipulation of measured performance. If the cost of manipulating performance is low, the …
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manipulation. Our model shows that predatory stock price manipulation leads to inefficient market concentration. Our analysis … further unveils product market competition as a channel through which buy orders increase manipulation profits, providing new …
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We suggest a model of electoral competition between two parties which is extended by a third player : mass media. The classical one-dimensional competition model is changed by introducing an issue-specific sensibility-coefficient and by allowing for non-voting. The winner is selected by majority...
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