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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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Taking into account that it is in the nature of the modern corporat ion that risks are distributed over several agents, we discuss in this paper the organisational behaviour as it results from such dispersal of responsibilities for both the principal and the agent. We explore the hypothesis that...
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how the agent’s risk attitude affects his decisions. This “Threshold Theory” framework is based on a real options approach … influence the agent’s risk attitude. The theory’s predictions help to explain many anomalies that the standard expected utility … model cannot. Threshold Theory can also model behavior in contexts such as individual investor decisions, corporate …
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In a repeated unobserved endowment economy in which agents negotiate long-term contracts with a financial intermediary, we study the implications of the interaction between incentive compatibility and participation constraints for risk sharing. In particular, we assume that after a default...
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