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internal rivalry. Driven by deregulation and advances in information technologies, many historical institutional distinctions …
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This paper examines search with active learning and correlated information. We firstdevelop a simple model to show how … correlation affects the decision to acquire information.A unique data set on fishing site choice by mid-Atlantic clam fishermen is … declines, i.e., when the opportunity cost of gathering information is low, butalso when catch at familiar sites is on the rise …
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Recent events involving major insurance companies and insurance brokerage firms highlight substantial incentive problems in commercial and reinsurance markets where intermediation takes place. We show that in markets with informed as well as uninformed consumers and heterogeneous risk profiles...
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We consider optimal trade policy for a large country with private information. We show that the optimal tariff leads to … a signaling equilibrium with higher tariffs and lower welfare than under complete information, whereas the optimal … import quota replicates the complete information equilibrium and thus is superior to the tariff. We also show that, with the …
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information from interested parties. Unfortunately, information from interested parties does not provide an accurate picture of … the benefits and risks of new products. This paper examines the effects of information on consumers? demand for new food … products, GM-foods, in an environment where information from one or more interested parties is provided. We design and conduct …
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developed in previous work that relax the strong assumptions on information.We also review some related literature.[...] …
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Die verschiedenen Rollen der Information führten in derEntwicklung des IT-Managements bzw. des Informationsmanagements … Wettbewerbsfaktor. Ein Wechsel inder Titulierung der „Information als …“ steht für eine Verschiebung derProblem- und Aufgabenstellung in … der IT und damit auch der Perspektive,unter der die Information oder „die IT“ in Theorie und Praxis betrachtetwird …
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and accurate at pricing new information, as there areno signs of drift shortly after news days. On the contrary, a …
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We explore the effects of information propagation in a centralized financialmarket. Specifically, we embed search … frictions within the Grossman andStiglitz (1980) framework, relying on information percolation as modeled inDuffie, Malamud, and … Manso (2009). First, we show that information percolationproduces a positive autocorrelation in stock returns. Second, we …
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Our purpose is to show how large difference of beliefs induced by fear of crashesis amenable to large and persistent price responses to contemporaneous shocks. Weconstruct a pure exchange economy populated by two agents who estimate strictlydifferent models regarding the fundamental. In...
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