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This paper explores the role of information transmission in explaining donors ́choice between project aid and budget support. Budget support increases the involvement of recipient governments in the decision-making process and can thus be an example of a "delegation-scheme." Conversely, project...
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Ceding ownership to outside investors provides a control dilemma for founders. In less developed capital markets with … weaker formal institutions, we argue that retained founder director ownership can lower the transaction costs of external … ownership reduces information asymmetry vis-à-vis outside minority investors. The reduced information asymmetry is even stronger …
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This paper analyzes private precautions against crime when the value of the property to be protected is private information. Within a framework in which potential criminals can choose between various crime opportunities, we establish that decentralized decision-making by potential victims may...
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When and how do entrepreneurs sell their inventions? To address this issue, we develop an endogenous entry-sale asymmetric information oligopoly model. We show that lowquality inventions are sold directly or used for own entry. Inventors who sell post-entry use entry to credibly reveal...
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