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Consider a two-product firm that decides on the quality of each product. Product quality is unknown to consumers. If … the firm sells both products under the same brand name, consumers adjust their beliefs about quality subject to the … performance of both products. We show that if the probability that low quality will be detected is in an intermediate range, the …
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Consider a two-product firm that decides on the quality of each product. Product quality is unknown to consumers. If … the firm sells both products under the same brand name, consumers adjust their beliefs about quality subject to the … performance of both products. We show that if the probability that low quality will be detected is in an intermediate range, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318794
The paper offers a new explanation for the widely observed use of redeemable and convertible preferred stock in venture capital finance. Redeemable and convertible preferred stocks can be used to endogenously allocate cash flow and control rights as a function of the state of nature, the...
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An advisor is supposed to recommend a financial product in the best interest of her client. However, the best product for the client may not always be the product yielding the highest commission (paid by product providers) to the advisor. Do advisors nevertheless provide truthful advice? If not,...
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provide higher quality services to all consumers. The externality renders the market outcome inefficient. Price regulation …
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This paper offers a systematic exploration of reputation mechanism design in trading environments with opportunistic sellers, imperfect monitoring of a seller's actions and two possible seller effort levels, one of which has no value to buyers. The objective of reputation mechanisms in such...
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We consider a long-lived firm that faces an infinite sequence of finitely-lived consumers. In each period, the firm can exert either high or low effort, which is the firm's private information. When consumers learn about the firm's talent from the outcomes of previous transactions, there exists...
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. Extending Morris and Shin (2006), we consider that the IMF's intervention policy usually exerts a signaling effect on private …'s signaling ability, our results state that repeated intervention is required to bail out a country, where by additional … assistance may induce moral hazard on the debtor side. Contrarily, if the IMF exerts a strong signaling effect, one single …
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We show that on-demand insurance contracts, an innovative form of coverage recently introduced through the InsurTech sector, can serve as a screening device. To this end, we develop a new adverse selection model consistent with Wilson (1977), Miyazaki (1977) and Spence (1978). Consumers have...
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firm's profitability from its employment decisions. I show that the resulting signaling model has pooling equilibria in …
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