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TThere has been debate over the economic consequences of accounting conservatism in debt contracting. We contribute to this debate by arguing that the prospect of signaling project return may give rise to the demand for conservative accounting, even though it may not improve contracting...
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Network-based targeting is valuable in many applications such as diffusion of new technology, product promotion in marketing, among others. Nevertheless, how to quantitatively measure the effectiveness of targeting strategies remains a challenge. This paper studies a class of network games with...
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This paper studies the impact of mergers between public and private firms in vertically-differentiated markets on product repositioning, profits, consumer surplus, and social welfare. We analyze a game-theoretical model with a public firm and two private firms in which the public firm’s...
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Exponential bandits are widely adopted in economics and marketing due to their tractability. This paper analyzes the one-agent multi-armed account of exponential bandits, where the agent dynamically selects arms to maximize total payoff. We motivate our base model by examples with arms being of...
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To achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs), an ever-growing number of not-for-profit humanitarian organizations promotes the environmental and health product in developing economies. In this context, we study the impact of payment type (including the traditional...
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We examine the impact of consumer search from the perspective of revenue-maximizing optimal auction design. In this two-sided market, advertisers are endowed with privately known qualities, and consumers incur heterogeneous search costs when clicking on advertisements displayed by the search...
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We examine a (large) manufacturer's bribery decision (to bribe or not to bribe) arising from a procurement auction under "disparate corruption pressure'' when another (small) manufacturer is known to offer the auctioneer (i.e., the intermediary) a bribe in exchange for the "right of first...
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