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Green Lemons - Environmental Labels and Entry into an Environmentally Differentiated Market under Asymmetric Information

Kuhn, Michael - 1999

as screening device, to increase green supply and curb pooling. Perverse reactions entail decreasing green supply …

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International Migration, Imperfect Information and Brain Drain

Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - 2011

We consider a model of international migration where skills of workers are imperfectly observed by firms in the host country and where information asymmetries are more severe for immigrants than for natives. There are two stages. In the first one, workers in the South decide whether to move and...

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Price Discrimination in Input Markets: Quantity Discounts and Private Information

Herweg, Fabian; Müller, Daniel - 2013

We consider a monopolistic supplier’s optimal choice of wholesale tariffs when downstream firms are privately informed about their retail costs. Under discriminatory pricing, downstream firms that differ in their ex ante distribution of retail costs are offered different tariffs. Under uniform...

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Alas, my home is my castle: The excessive screening cost of buying a house

Arnold, Lutz G.; Babl, Andreas - 2013

This paper analyzes a model in which housing tenure choice serves as a means of screening households with different … acts as a screening device: consistent with empirical evidence, low-utilization households buy a house, while high …-utilization types rent. Otherwise, there is a pooling equilibrium. The reason why, contrary to standard screening models, a pooling …

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Optimal short-time work: Screening for jobs at risk

Teichgräber, Julian; Žužek, Simon; Hensel, Jannik - 2022

policies act as a screening mechanism to mitigate the adverse selection problem. This perspective of short-time work as a …

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Donating time or money: Are they substitutes or complements?

Hartmann, Bastian; Werding, Martin - 2012

a screening mechanism enabling donors to better assess the use that is made of the money they could contribute. We …

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International migration, imperfect information, and brain drain

Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - 2011

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Demand Screening with Slotting Allowances and Failure Fees

DeVuyst, Cheryl S - In: Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 3 (2005) 2

In the presence of scarce shelf space, retail grocers face the proliferation of new products and high failure rates. Accurately predicting the demand for a new product becomes increasingly difficult for retailers as the number of product offerings increases. This study explores slotting...

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Facilitating Consumer Learning in Insurance Markets—What Are the Welfare Effects?

Lagerlöf, Johan N. M.; Schottmüller, Christoph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

What are the welfare effects of a policy that facilitates for insurance customers to privately and covertly learn about their accident risks? We endogenize the information structure in Stiglitz's classic monopoly insurance model. We first show that his results are robust: For a small information...

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Monopoly Insurance with Endogenous Information

Lagerlöf, Johan N. M.; Schottmüller, Christoph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We study a monopoly insurance model with endogenous information acquisition. Through a continuous effort choice, consumers can determine the precision of a privately observed signal that is informative about their accident risk. The equilibrium effort is, depending on parameter values, either...

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