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Crowdfunding challenges the traditional separation between finance and marketing. It creates economic value by reducing demand uncertainty, which enables a better screening of positive NPV projects. Entrepreneurial moral hazard threatens this effect. Using mechanism design, mechanisms are...
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performing agent must beat the second best to receive the winner prize. We analyze a tournament with two risk averse agents …
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The probability that actors in economic relationships break rules increases with the profits they thus expect to earn. It decreases with the probability and level of short- and long-term losses resulting from disclosure. It also decreases with the level of social context factors and intrinsic...
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promised higher profitability partly because of better risk management made possible by advances in information technology and …. Because systemic risk cannot be fully privatized social insurance against it is inevitably a common pool (or open) resource …, which means that there is an incentive for financial units to over-extract in the form of excessive risk taking in the …
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We study a dynamic contracting problem in which size is relevant. The agent may take on excessive risk to enhance short … curb risk taking. Firms that are less prone to risk taking can afford a higher leverage …
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This paper considers a financing problem for an innovative firm that is launching a web-based platform. The entrepreneur, on one hand, faces a large degree of demand uncertainty on his product and on the other hand has to deal with incentive problems of professional blockchain participants who...
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This paper studies wildfires in California from 2000 to 2018 using comprehensive merged dataon fires, mortgage and property characteristics, and weather. We find a significant increase in mortgage delinquency and foreclosure after a fire, but these effects decrease in the size of the fire,which...
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