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Showing 1 to 20 of 148 for “"Asymmetric Information"”.
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Essays on Asymmetric Information
… analyzes the credible communication of seller information to buyers. My first essay, "New and Improved?", considers firms' incentives to introduce new product versions and the corresponding beliefs of consumers about such products' quality when they have no direct information about the product …
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Optimal Warranties Under Asymmetric Information
When firms have private information on the quality of their own products, the warranty offered by a firm can convey information about product quality. Warranties also provide consumers with insurance should the product fail. Consumers face a trade-off: the desired insurance may not provide firms …
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Trade Networks under Asymmetric Information
… to a trader through a network. We introduce asymmetric information on the valuation of goods by sellers and buyers. We deal with a two-stage game with incomplete information. The trader tries to maximize his profit. In Chapter 1, we analyze even network structures with one seller-one …
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Income smoothing: An asymmetric information approach
This thesis adopts an informational perspective to explain why managers with private information engage in income smoothing and to provide new insights into income smoothing. In particular, this study extends the existing income smoothing literature by highlighting informational properties of …
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Essays on asymmetric information and markets
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Essays On The Effects Of Asymmetric Information
… most, if not all, real economic settings are asymmetric in nature. Particularly, it is often the case that one or several agents possess more or better information than the rest when agreeing upon an economic transaction. Although the information economics revolution of the 1970s laid out the …
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Asymmetric information, competitive intelligence, and organizational performance
… examines the effects of two sources of asymmetric information on organizational performance. The first source, residual knowledge, is conceptualized in the first chapter as the knowledge held by organizations about their former resources that now belong to competitor organizations. It is …
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Essays on the economics of asymmetric information
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1998.
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Essays on coalition formation under asymmetric information
… since the coalition formation itself suffers information asymmetry problems, we assume that the coalition is formed if the colluding parties can successfully find some coalitional mechanism whose outcome is a set of messages in the original mechanism. Recently Cremer [1986] proposes a …
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Essays on asymmetric information in government contracting
… optimal contracting policies in the presence of asymmetric information and uncertainty. The first essay studies how risk aversion and a sunk investment by the firm influence the contracting outcome. The government contracts with a single, risk-averse supplier for the production of output. Both …
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Asymmetric information, exchange rate uncertainty and banking competition
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Essays on Learning and Stability in Asymmetric Information Economies
… how an equilibrium evolves over a sequence of asymmetric information economies where economic agents learn more information from past observations. Agents are bounded rational in the sense that they optimize within a small error. Information is revealed over time by the realizations of …
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The efficiency of professional malpractice laws under asymmetric information
Professional malpractice is currently treated as a tort in the U.S. Court system. However, cases of professional malpractice differ from other torts since they generally occur between parties with a pre-existing relationship. Such a pre-existing relationship allows for the possibility of contracts …
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The Economics of Data Breach: Asymmetric Information and Policy Interventions
… and private costs result from attacks on firms’ information technology networks. Successful attacks result in data breaches with private damages from business interruption, reputation, and investigation forensics. Social losses result from exposing individuals’ personal information, leading to …
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Dynamic sequential decision problems with asymmetric information: some existence results
… decision problems -- games and teams -- with asymmetric information. It is divided into two parts and addresses six broad theoretical problems. In the first part of the thesis, the focus is on dynamic games, in which the decision makers do not observe the same set of random variables at every …
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The Effects of Environmental Hazards and Asymmetric Information on Agricultural Mortage
This research examines the environmental hazard problem in a purely qualitative manner. Future quantitative work remains.
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Effects of asymmetric information on agricultural borrowing, investment, and capital structure
… farm capital structure and investment under asymmetric information between the farm borrower and lender. The capital structure of the borrower may affect the terms of the loan contract or may restrict credit availability. Thus, under asymmetric information conditions, the capital structure …
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Slotting Allowances, Failure Fees and Asymmetric Information in the Grocery Supply Chain
… by their demand distributions and alleviate asymmetric information problems. Adverse selection problems can be reduced by utilizing such mechanisms to align incentives for retailers and manufacturers when shelving new product introductions.
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Disclosure Timing of Accounting Information and Stock Market Reaction Under Asymmetric Information
… reporting in a capital market where there is information asymmetry about firm quality between investors and managers. Timely reporting can be valuable to managers in that it can be used as a signal of firm quality. The study also offers a theoretical model which suggests an explanation for why …
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Three essays in microeconomics of public enterprises under asymmetric information and uncertainty
… unit cost--by a central planner. We assume information asymmetry with a private information bearing enterprise manager and an uninformed central planner. The central planner is treated as the principal and the manager is treated as an agent in a principal-agent model where incompatible …
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