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information can be better than that under complete information, if the government uses signaling mechanism rather than incentive … mechanism. The main difference between screening and signaling is who initiates information transmission process. Contrary to … the incentive mechanism for the optimal price regulation, the signaling mechanism induces the regulated firm to deviate …
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This paper analyzes the signaling nature of litigation selection under asymmetric information. For the robustness of … the analysis, we separate the litigation selection process, where the signaling from the informed party plays the key role …
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This paper studies the signaling role of the litigation/settlement selection under asymmetric information. As an …
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whether it is because of poor or smart operations. We hypothesize that inventory has a signaling role. In our model, publicly … the assumptions behind this inventory signaling hypothesis: (1) the market cannot tell the difference between “good” and …
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Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer '€" the seller '€" follows from a non-trivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device,...
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Nobel Prize Lecture
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We study the impact of access regulation in a telecommunications market on an entrant?s decision whether to invest in a network or ask for access when the regulator cannot observe its potential demand. Since the entrant has incentives to not compete vigorously right after entry in order to...
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This paper studies the role of exchange policies as a price discrimination device in a sequential screening model with heterogeneous goods. In the first period, agents are uncertain about their ordinal preferences over a set of horizontally differentiated goods, but have private information...
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This paper shows that in online car auctions, resellers are better at appraising the value of the cars they are bidding on than are consumers. Using a unique data set of online car auctions, I show that differences in bidding behavior between resellers and consumers can be explained by...
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One important function of consumption is for consumers to show off their taste, virtue or wealth. While empirical observations suggest that producers take this into account, existing research has concentrated on analyzing the demand side. This paper investigates how a monopolist optimally...
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