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We analyze a model in which firms are able to acquire information about product risks and may or may not be required to disclose this information. We initially study the effect of disclosure rules assuming that firms are not liable for the harm caused by their products. Although mandatory...
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This paper considers a market in which only the incumbent's quality is publicly known. The entrant's quality is observed by the incumbent and some fraction of informed consumers. This leads to price signalling rivalry between the duopolists, because the incumbent gains and the entrant loses when...
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When consumers are unsure of the exact standard that a quality certificate or label represents, they must infer the difficulty of the standard in part from observing which firms adopt the label. Key results from the certification and disclosure literatures are thereby altered. First, consumers...
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Financial markets enable risk sharing and efficient allocation of capital. We characterize how these roles interact in a “feedback effects” model with diversely informed, risk-averse investors and a manager who learns from prices when making an investment decision. While learning from prices...
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Research has shown that advertising assets and R&D (research and development) assets increase shareholder value …. We show that current market turbulence moderates the impacts of advertising assets and R&D assets on expected cash flow … moderates the impacts of advertising assets and R&D assets on bankruptcy risk but not shareholder value. Market stability …
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This paper brings empirical evidence that the positive effect of exposure to advertising on consumers' tendency to … previous studies that advertising intensity is an element in consumers' utility is due to the restrictive assumption that … consumers are risk-neutral. When this assumption is relaxed, we find that exposure to advertising does not have any direct …
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This paper examines to what extent information opacity exacerbates climate risks in supply chains. Understanding the information frictions in supply chain settings is important because disruptions originating from an opaque supplier can impose greater risk to the supply chain as a whole than...
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This paper considers price competition in a duopoly with quality uncertainty. The established firm (the `incumbent') offers a quality that is publicly known; the other firm (the `entrant') offers a new good whose quality is not known by some consumers. The incumbent is fully informed about the...
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