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environments, transparency may reduce expected welfare from an ex-ante point of view: public announcements serve as a focal point …. Restricting the degree of publicity is a better-suited instrument for preventing the negative welfare effects of public …
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behavior of others. This may lead to welfare-reducing 'overreactions' to public signals as shown by Morris and Shin (2002 … levels of reasoning. This paper analyzes the welfare effects of public information under limited levels of reasoning and … information cannot reduce welfare, unless the policy maker has instruments that are perfect substitutes to private actions. …
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integration may reduce welfare. The results are consistent with the available empirical evidence. …
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We analyze a divisible good uniform-price auction that features two groups each with a finite number of identical bidders. Equilibrium is unique, and the relative market power of a group increases with the precision of its private information but declines with its transaction costs. In line with...
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Markets with imperfect competition do not induce a cost-minimizing allocation of production between firms. The market's ability to rationalize production is even more limited if costs are private information to firms. Merger in such markets generate an efficiency gain associated with the pooling...
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welfare improving. …
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than compensate the welfare reducing impact of market power, irrespective of whether the number of firms is given … exogenously or determined endogenously by a profit constraint. We further show that welfare in a setting with adverse selection … may be higher than the maximized welfare level attainable in a world with perfect observability. …
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