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regulations, we aim to halve the size of the unregulated large option. Compared to the regulation-free baseline, sellers facing a …
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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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has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to … ; competition …
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We provide an experimental analysis of competitive insurance markets with adverse selection. Our parameterized version of the lemons' model (Akerlof 1970) in the insurance context predicts total crowding out of low-risks when insurers offer a single full insurance contract. The therapy proposed...
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has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …
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has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …
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design an experiment to examine the impact of competition and price transparency in such settings. Consistent with the … theoretical predictions, we find that competition promotes efficiency if bargainers cannot observe each other's price offers …. Contrary to the predictions, however, the efficiency-enhancing effect of competition persists even when offers are observable …
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has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to … ; competition …
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We study a winner-take-all R&D race where firms are privately informed about the uncertain arrival rate of the invention. Due to the interdependent-value nature of the problem, the equilibrium displays a strong herding effect that distinguishes our framework from war-of-attrition models....
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