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Reputation concerns in credit markets restrain borrowers' temptations to take excessive risk. The strength of these …
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Scholars have long recognized the difficulties of communicating risk to the public. The rise of mobile gaming presents unprecedented opportunities for risk communicators to reach millions of potential users in engaging and potentially effective ways. Gamifying risk communication may help users...
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We consider a repeated interaction between a manufacturing firm and a subcontractor. The realtionship between the two parties is characterized 1) by moral hazard, 2) by the fact that they do not have perfect knowledge about the base cost level of the project carried out by a subcontractor (the...
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information about the multiplier. We discuss potential reasons for the deviation between theory and experimental data. …
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of privately known competence, who cares about his reputation, chooses the timing of the forecast regarding the outcome …. Further, any report hurts the forecaster’s reputation in the short run, with later reports incurring larger penalties. The … reputation of a silent forecaster, on the other hand, gradually improves over time. …
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The literature on learning in unknown environments emphasises reinforcing on actions which produce positive results. But, in some cases, success requires shifting from a currently successful actions to others. We examine, experimentally and theoretically in a very simple framework, how...
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enhance welfare. The paper offers a new theory to explain why stress tests are generally welfare enhancing. We also offer a …
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An entrepreneur contracts with a consultant, who is protected by limited liability, to supply information about the state of a project prior to investing in it. For a given level of investment, a good project succeeds with higher probability than a bad one. The entrepreneur makes an upfront...
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good reputation?) Seemingly uncontroversially, the task of information acquisition involves doing so until the additional …, ritual and reputation. These mechanisms that are anointed as appropriate by the broader transactional community; their …
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