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youngsters about social norms. We show that this signaling role provides sufficient incentives to sustain costly punishing …-based mechanisms are fragile, since punishment is a more compelling signaling device (in a sense that we make precise). …
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How much information should a central bank (CB) have about (i) policy objectives and (ii) operational shocks to the effect of monetary policy? We consider a version of the Barro–Gordon credibility problem in which monetary policy signals an inflation-biased CB's private information on both...
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determinant of the feasibility of such signaling. A firm may use price alone as a signal, or price and quality together. Both … signals tend to be used when the market is very uninformed, whereas price signaling alone tends to be used when the market is … low observable quality is always an indication that unobservable quality is high. -- Signaling ; quality …
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Immer mehr Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher greifen zu ökologischen und fair gehandelten Produkten, mehr und mehr Läden erweitern ihr Sortiment um entsprechende Produktalternativen. Doch nicht immer steht dahinter ein echtes Interesse an alternativen Produktionsprozessen. Ein Teil der...
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, the focus is on empirical test of signaling theory. This theory says that the payment of dividends provides information … for investors and analysts. The aim of this study is preparing the evidence on dividend signaling about corporate … dividend and earning. It means that dividend has information content about return and earning and so, signaling theory was …
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This paper studies the problem of screening teams of either moral or altruistic agents, in a setting where agents choose whether or not to exert effort in order to achieve a high output for the principal. I show that there exists no separating equilibrium menu of contracts that induces the...
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This paper studies sequential Bayesian persuasion games with multiple senders. We provide a tractable characterization of equilibrium outcomes. We apply the model to study how the structure of consultations affects information revelation. Adding a sender who moves first cannot reduce...
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We study dynamic signaling in a game of stochastic stakes. Each period, a privately informed agent of binary type …
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We build a model of debt for firms with investment projects, for which flexibility and free cash flow problems are important issues. We focus on the factors that lead the firm to select the zero-debt policy. Our model provides an explanation of the so-called "zero-leverage puzzle". It also helps...
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The authors reexamine the Schmalensee effect from a dynamic perspective. Schmalsensee’s argument suggesting that high quality can be signaled by high prices is based on the assumption that higher quality necessarily incurs higher production cost. In this paper, the authors argue that firms...
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