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Verbraucherpolitik: Schutz der Verbraucher und Sicherung der Funktionsfähigkeit von Märkten

Hagen, Kornelia; von Schlippenbach, Vanessa - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 25, pp. 397-401

Verbraucherpolitik kann durch die Bereitstellung glaubwürdiger Informationen den Schutz der Verbraucher vor eigennützigem Verhalten der Unternehmen verbessern, durch den Abbau von Markteintrittsbarrieren die Funktionsfähigkeit des Wettbewerbs sichern und die Etablierung von Innovationen am...

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Emergence of Financial Intermediaries in Electronic Markets: The Case of Online P2P Lending

Berger, Sven C.; Gleisner, Fabian - In: BuR - Business Research 2 (2009) 1, pp. 39-65

We analyze the role of intermediaries in electronic markets using detailed data of more than 14,000 originated loans on an electronic P2P (peer-to-peer) lending platform. In such an electronic credit market, lenders bid to supply a private loan. Screening of potential borrowers and the...

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The Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the Cost of Going Public

Kaserer, Christoph; Mettler, Alfred; Obernberger, Stefan - In: BuR - Business Research 4 (2011) 2, pp. 125-147

This paper examines the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), a legal framework intended to increase transparency and accountability of listed companies, on the cost of going public in the US. We expect SOX to increase the direct cost of going public, but decrease the underpricing because of...

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Implementation with evidence

Kartik, Navin; Tercieux, Olivier - In: Theoretical Economics 7 (2012) 2, pp. 323-355

We generalize the canonical problem of Nash implementation by allowing agents to voluntarily provide discriminatory signals, i.e. evidence. Evidence can either take the form of hard information or, more generally, have differential but non-prohibitive costs in different states. In such...

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The effect and impact of signals on investing decisions in reward-based crowdfunding: A comparative study of China and the United Kingdom

Usman, Sardar Muhammad; Bukhari, Farasat Ali Shah; You, … - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 13 (2020) 12, pp. 1-20

signaling theory, a research taxonomy has been developed for a comparative analysis between China and the UK. This has been … does in China. Project comments are more positively associated with project success in China as compared to the UK, whereas … project updates are more negatively related to project success in China as compared to the UK. These findings demonstrate the …

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Do News Shocks Drive Business Cycles? Evidence from German Data

Lucke, Bernd; Haertel, Thomas - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-10, pp. 1-21

We study the Beaudry and Portier (2006)-hypothesis of delayed-technology diffusion and news-driven business cycles. For German data on TFP and stock prices we find qualitatively similar empirical evidence. Quantitatively, however, an impulse response analysis suggests that a substantial part of...

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Information efficiency and financial stability

Caccioli, Fabio; Marsili, Matteo - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-20, pp. 1-20

The authors study a simple model of an asset market with informed and non-informed agents. In the absence of non-informed agents, the market becomes information efficient when the number of traders with different private information is large enough. Upon introducing non-informed agents, the...

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Der Zugang zu Wissen im Ausland erfordert andere Tauschformen

Durth, Rainer - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 81 (2001) 7, pp. 413-420

Ein effektiver Zugang zu neuem Wissen im Ausland ist heute für fast alle Volkswirtschaften wichtiger als dessen eigene Erzeugung. Die wenigstens Länder berücksichtigen jedoch, daß sich fortgeschrittenes Wissen nicht wie andere ökonomische Güter handeln läßt - schon gar nicht auf...

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Die Riester-Förderung: Mangelnde Information als Verbreitungshemmnis

Coppola, Michela; Gasche, Martin - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 91 (2011) 11, pp. 792-799

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Stärkerer Wettbewerb unter Kreditauskunfteien: Gesetz soll mehr Transparenz bringen

Jentzsch, Nicola - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 22, pp. 290-297

Der Wettbewerb unter Kreditauskunfteien in Deutschland hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren stark intensiviert. Auskunfteien sammeln persönliche Daten über Verbraucher, die von Kreditinstituten, Leasing- und Telekommunikationsunternehmen, aber auch von Handelsfirmen sowie Energieversorgern...

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