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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Common Agency"”.
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Three Essays on Return Predictability and Decentralized Investment Management
… Chapter 3, "The Servant of Two Masters: A Common Agency Explanation for Side-by-Side Management," I present a common agency model to study side-by-side: SBS) management in which a manager simultaneously manages two funds and separately contracts with the two different fund principals. The …
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Three essays in imperfect competition, political economy and international trade
… between two countries for a multinational in a common agency framework. \Ve address the following questions. On the positive side, is special interest lobbying a determinant of competition for FDI? If so, how does it work? How does it affect the equilibrium price for attracting FDI? On the …
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Elections with incomplete information
… out of office. I embed the basic model in a common agency framework to study seniority norms in legislative organization. The model organizes many of the stylized facts about the U.S. Congress, including the incumbency advantage, the dynamics of effort allocation over a career, the importance …
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Public hospital corporatization and innovation in Lebanon and Chile : agency and decision rights approaches
… to good performance. Recent developments in agency and contract theory shed some new light on old questions about public sector performance, of which I address three in this dissertation. The first question has to do with the manner in which institutional design in general, and decision …
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Agency and incentive contract in private investment of transport project : an exploration of fundamental relationships
… form, we uniquely integrated multitask agency and common agency into our modeling. The outcome could be simplified as: the equilibrium with n principals is exactly as if there is just one hypothetical principal with an objective function that is the sum of all the separate principals' …
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Non-Linear Pricing in Imperfectly Competitive Markets
… from its foundations, mechanism design under common agency. The different approaches to model non-linear pricing are then reviewed. In particular, the difference between price and quantity competition is highlighted. Finally, the close link between non-linear pricing and the recent …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Domestic and Trade Policies in the Presence of Production and Consumption Externalities
This dissertation extends the Grossman-Helpman models of endogenous trade policy formation to incorporate local and global production and consumption externalities, and to allow governments to choose domestic production or consumption policies together with trade interventions. The models presented …