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In many markets, firms make their products complex through add-ons, thus making them difficult to evaluate and compare. How does this product obfuscation affect competition, sellers’ profits, and buyers’ welfare? We study these questions in a competitive experimental market in which sellers...
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Ambiguous prospects are ubiquitous in social and economic life, but the psychological foundations of behavior under ambiguity are still not well understood. One of the most robust empirical regularities is the strong correlation between attitudes towards ambiguity and compound risk which...
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In many markets, firms make their products complex through add-on features, thus making them difficult to evaluate and compare. Does this product obfuscation lure buyers into buying overpriced products, and if so, why does competition not eliminate this practice? More generally, under which...
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Volatility forecasting is important in financial econometrics and is mainly based on the application of various GARCH-type models. However, it is difficult to choose a specific GARCH model that works uniformly well across datasets, and the traditional methods are unstable when dealing with...
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Ambiguous prospects are ubiquitous in social and economic life, but the psychological foundations of behavior under ambiguity are still not well understood. One of the most robust empirical regularities is the strong correlation between attitudes towards ambiguity and compound risk which...
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We evaluate the financial risk and explore potential motivation of pervasive external guarantee activities. Using a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms during the period from 2008 to 2017, we find a positive association between external guarantees intensity and stock price crash risk. High...
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We investigate how M&A activities are used to allocate R&D resources within firm boundaries. We find that Chinese listed firms exhibit strong intra-firm R&D reallocation behaviors following M&A activities from 2007 to 2017. Specifically, they shift innovation activities to subsidiary firms. The...
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