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the information provided about reviewers (e.g., consumers may have no information about a reviewer or may see a full … reviewer profile containing multiple pieces of demographic information). We demonstrate that when given no information about a …
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-provision of information; while if the issuer-pays can force disclosure, it is efficient, but otherwise it leads to less revealing … information because of the systematic distortion in revealed information along with over-investment in information. We show that …
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In order to meet two key objectives, enrollment managers at colleges and universities make extensive use of single equation probability models. The first objective is to generate sufficient financial resources to educate the students enrolled. The more dependent the institution is on tuition...
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In an environment in which both buyers and sellers can undertake match specific investments, the presence of market competition for matches may solve hold-up and coordination problems generated by the absence of complete contingent contracts. In particular, this paper shows that when matching is...
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This paper studies a model of mechanism design with transfers where agents' preferences need not be quasilinear. In such a model, (1) we characterize dominant strategy incentive compatible mechanisms using a monotonicity property; (2) we establish a revenue uniqueness result: for every dominant...
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Kenneth Arrow and Karl Borch published several important articles in the early 1960s that can be viewed as the beginning of modern economic analysis of insurance activity. This chapter reviews the main theoretical and empirical contributions in insurance economics since that time. The review...
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Theoretical and empirical studies of consumer scheduling behavior usually ignore that consumers have more flexibility to adjust their schedule in the long run than in the short run. We are able to distinguish between long-run choices of travel routines and short-run choices of departure times...
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evaluation such regulations. I argue that, for market performance, more information is not always better; indeed, more … information may undermine market performance by facilitating behaviour that is either not cost efficient or aims at exercising … competitive market outcome does not require general access to information at a very detailed level or with a high degree of …
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paper investigates how consumers form and update their inflation expectations using a unique information experiment embedded … the economy overall. We then randomly provide a subset of respondents with infl ation-relevant information: either past … information on respondents' inflation expectations. We find that respondents revise their inflation expectations in response to …
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