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market for experts. The information the expert reveals decreases as his bias moves toward stronger preference for the status …We analyze situations in which an expert is biased toward some decision but cares also about his reputation in the …, revealing the intensity of the expert's bias doesn't always improve the information he reveals in equilibrium. The presence of a …
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We develop a model in which two firms that have proposed to merge are privately informed about merger-specific efficiencies. This enables the firms to influence the merger control procedure by strategically revealing their information to an antitrust authority. Although the information improves...
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By bundling experience goods, a manufacturer can more easily maintain a reputation for high quality over time. Formally …
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Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...
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of privately known competence, who cares about his reputation, chooses the timing of the forecast regarding the outcome …. Further, any report hurts the forecaster’s reputation in the short run, with later reports incurring larger penalties. The … reputation of a silent forecaster, on the other hand, gradually improves over time. …
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Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...
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make a voluntary payment, a bonus, after observing advice quality. While the combination of competition and reputation …. Thus, our results suggest that a voluntary component can act as a substitute for either competition or reputation …
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We analyze how financial experts influence asset prices in a sequential trading model. In the model, an expert of … information about the expert's ability is private to traders and only revealed through trades. When the expert's reputation is …
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This paper analyses the market for professional (expert) services where the experts are motivated by reputational … characteristics can induce clients to choose between experts with different reputations. The paper shows that clients choices have an … important impact on the incentives of experts to provide a high quality service. In particular, sorting of clients affects …
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We study the effects of preselection on an expert's incentive to give truthful advice in a decision environment in which certain decisions yield more precise estimates about the expert's expertise. The introduction of a preselection stage, in which the decision maker can study the case before...
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