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-ante and ex-post information asymmetry between the uninformed buyer and the informed seller. Previous literature demonstrates … the verifiability of the quality provided and the expert's liability. In this paper, we identify the information … customers' information might actually lead to welfare losses. Further, we highlight the supremacy of the assumption regarding …
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a simple framework with two distinct types of agents on market side 1, we show that under incomplete information the … extent of platform access for high-demand agents is strictly reduced below the benchmark level with complete information. In …
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Online platforms provide search tools that help consumers to get better-fitting product offers. But this technology makes consumer search behavior also easily traceable and allows for real-time price discrimination. Consumers face a trade-off: Search intensely and receive a better fit at a...
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Global games are widely used for equilibrium selection to predict behaviour in complete information games with … players or actions. In addition, we give an elementary proof that robustness to incomplete information implies noise …
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-informed about the information that others have, and who therefore find it impossible to ignore pieces of news even though they know … information is incorporated into the market price. I discuss implications for how mass media can hurt the informational efficiency …
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The coordination plays central role in the economics. The conventional economic theory looks at the market and … enterprise (or hierarchy) as two different, separated manner of coordination of economic goods and services. However the modern … several types of hybrid forms) of coordination (or governance structure) necessarily live together in the current economic …
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earlier rounds of the auction any information about their valuations. If the seller observes only the winning bid in each … the seller attempts to suppress some of the information revealed in the auction, for example, by learning only whether an …
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easily be reinterpreted as a model of monopolistic provision of excludable public goods under private information. An …
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Implicit in the text-book monopoly is an assumption of complete and instantaneous information or knowledge available to … develop a dynamic monopoly model. In particular, we assume first that the monopolist has only partial information about the … cost function is linear. It is shown that the gradient learning or search process based on locally obtained information …
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This paper uses a simple model based on the board game Monopoly to analyze the drivers of house prices and wealth inequality. Simulations show that inequality generally builds up fast even if players have equal starting conditions and house prices are stable; rising house prices imply more...
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