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What are the welfare effects of a policy that facilitates for insurance customers to privately and covertly learn about their accident risks? We endogenize the information structure in Stiglitz's classic monopoly insurance model. We first show that his results are robust: For a small information...
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What are the welfare effects of a policy that facilitates for insurance customers to privately and covertly learn about their accident risks? We endogenize the information structure in Stiglitz's classic monopoly insurance model. We first show that his results are robust: For a small information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060905
We study the revenue-maximizing mechanism when a buyer’s value evolves endogenously because of learning-by-consuming. A … compatibility. Our results help to understand contracts about sequential consumption with the learning feature; e.g., leasing …
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When different stages of the evaluation of a multi-attribute project rest with conflicting economic actors, which attributes are selectively explored and why? We provide a model of attribute sampling in which correlation across attributes is flexibly modeled through Gaussian processes. In the...
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. We find that the firm encourages social learning for a greater range of beliefs and has greater expected revenue when it …
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We analyze households' responses to an unanticipated change in consumption opportunities and evaluate their implications for the nature and formation of preferences. We study the tariff experiment conducted by South Central Bell where local telephone tariffs were introduced for the first time in...
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-level dynamic model of observational learning, and applies it to a novel data set from the U.S. kidney market where transplant … learning: patients draw negative quality inferences from earlier refusals in the queue, thus becoming more inclined towards … show that observational learning and information sharing shape consumer choices in markedly different ways. Optimal …
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Information plays a crucial role in mechanism design problems. A potential complication is that buyers may be inattentive, and so their information may endogenously and flexibly depend on the offered mechanism. I show that it is without loss of generality to consider contour mechanisms, which...
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This paper theoretically studies the interaction between an informed borrower and an uninformed lender facing possible default of a loan application. The lender is motivated to invest cognitive resources before making a lending decision. If the regulatory fine is weak, it is impossible for a...
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Online platforms provide search tools that help consumers to get betterfitting product offers. But this technology makes consumer search behavior also easily traceable for the platform and allows for real-time price discrimination. Consumers face a trade-off: Search intensely and receive better...
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