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The marketing literature refers to the concept of brand capital and provides empirical evidence that firms with a large stock of well-established brands have an advantage in introducing new products. This paper develops a theory of brand extension as a mechanism for informational leverage in...
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paper reconsiders the role of policy cooperation and credibility in a two-country model with incomplete information about … the public has incomplete information about the ability of tyhe policymakers to adhere to international agreements. Even …
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We analyze a model related to the strategic hereding literature where a second expert maximises his expected second period vvalue by conforming witj a first expert ("herding"). In contrast to the herdinfg literature we assume that an agent is most valuable if he is the only smart agent. We...
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This paper discusses how ICT and emerging electronic commerce in consumer products influence the relative efficiency in production of households and firms, resulting in changes in the division of tasks between these two types of agents.
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The paper constructs a theoretical framework in which the value of information in general equilibrium can be linked to … the efficiency of the risk sharing mechanism. We demonstrate that in economies with production, information may have … negative value even though no risk sharing markets exist. As a rule of thumb the value of information tends to be lower the …
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The marketing literature refers to the concept of brand capital and provides empirical evidence that firms with a large stock of well-established brands have an advantage in introducing new products. This paper develops a theory of brand extension as a mechanism for informational leverage in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602850
We show that it is sometimes efficient for a bank to commit to a policy that keeps information about its risky assets … private. Our model, based upon Diamond-Dybvig [1983], has the feature that banks acquire information about their risky assets … contingent on this information, but by doing so they must also reveal the information. We derive the conditions on depositors …
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-BASED ECONOMIC STRUCTURES AND INFORMATION SOCIETIES THAT COMPRISE NETWORKS OF INDIVIDUALS, FIRMS AND COUNTRIES THAT ARE LINKED …
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consistency is attained by making full use of available information, i.e. consistent preference and reasons. I show that … utility through unconscious learning. Many well-known paradoxes and anomalies of choice, evaluation and information are solved …
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supportent l'idee d'un calibrage plus fin de la reglementation en fonction de l'information des banques, revelatrice de leur …
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