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This paper examines international trade in tainted food and other low-quality products. Wefirst find that for a large class of environments, free trade is the trading system that conveysthe highest incentives to produce non-tainted high-quality goods by foreign exporters.However, free trade...
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Asymmetric information is a relevant concept for studying and understanding financial markets. In this paper we discus … the effect of asymmetric information on the borrower–lender relationship. The presence of asymmetric information in … exploiting the lender’s lack of information. When credit is allocated, there is another risk known as moral hazard. Moral hazard …
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Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer …
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We examine trade credit links between firms as a channel of international return comovement. We model firms in different countries connected by trade credit links in segmented stock markets with asymmetrically informed investors. The model predicts that the cross-serial correlation of country...
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information, we show that low-skilled workers are expected to provide higher amounts of remittances when remittances are motivated …
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This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from … belonging to the same network. We show that there is significant asymmetry of information and no evidence of major systematic … migrants regarding non-migrants. We develop a static model of asymmetric information that contrasts altruism, pressure and …
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coins for a fee. We consider two sources of imperfect information: counterfeit coins and clipping. With counterfeits we show … the commodity money system, our analysis relates to the more general issue of asset trading under imperfect information. …
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We provide elementary insights into the effectiveness of certification to increase market transparency. In a market with opaque product quality, sellers use certification as a signaling device, while buyers use it as an inspection device. This difference alone implies that seller-certification...
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We consider a model of cake-eating with private information. The model captures phenomena such as trust and “security …
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Riley (1979)'s reactive equilibrium concept addresses problems of equilibrium existence in competitive markets with adverse selection. The game-theoretic interpretation of the reactive equilibrium concept in Engers and Fernandez (1987) yields the Rothschild-Stiglitz (1976)/Riley (1979)...
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