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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Information Revelation"”.
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Essays on strategic communication
The first chapter studies optimal information revelation with one-sided asymmetric information. A sender chooses ex ante how her information will be revealed ex post. A receiver obtains both public information and information revealed by the sender, and then takes one of two actions. The sender …
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Essays on financial market imperfections
… financial market imperfections, in particular, information imperfections. Chapter 1 studies how the existence of a fixed cost per transaction faced by uninformed investors hampers information revelation through price and exacerbates adverse selection. The exacerbated adverse selection explains …
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Three Essays in Auctions and Contests
… with a refund policy. Chapter 3 investigates how information revelation rules affect the existence and the efficiency of equilibria in two-round elimination contests. I establish that there exists no symmetric separating equilibrium under the full revelation rule and find that the non-existence …
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Essays on Tax Information Exchange in a Post-BEPS World
The thesis investigates information exchange for tax matters. It covers both reporting of taxpayers to tax authorities and communication between tax administrations on taxpayers’ activity. The motivation for the research is recent global cooperation on counteraction to profit shifting and base …
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Essays on the macroeconomics of the labor markets
… competitive search equilibria in economies with informational asymmetries. Employers and workers are both risk-neutral and ex-ante homogeneous. I characterize an equilibrium where employers post contracts and workers direct their search towards them. When a match is formed, the disutility of …
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Mechanism design : from optimal transport theory to revenue maximization
… settings, the auctioneer may wish to reveal some information about the item for sale in addition to running an auction. While prior work has focused only on the information design part keeping the mechanism fixed, we study the combined problem of designing the information revelation policy …
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Essays in financial economics
… loss in value from the "two-audience-signaling" information disclosure costs associated with secondary equity issues. These new predictions are tested empirically using panel data through a predictive logit model of dividend initiations, and additional empirical support for the …
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Essays in labor economics
… When it does, it obtains both labor services and information about the worker's productivity. This information has option value as a productive novice can be rehired. However, if competing firms also observe the novice's productivity, the option value of hiring accrues to the worker, not the …
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Essays in Experimental and Public Economics
… (chapter 2) is an experimental examination of information revelation in a voting model. Typically parties can conduct public events, such as rallies or demonstrations that reveal their level of support in hopes this might influence voter turnout and the outcome of the election. How effective is …
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Electric power network economics : designing principles for a for-profit independent transmission company and underlying architectures for reliability
… these transmission contracts is essential for information revelation on the supply and demand of network users. The thesis proposes a workable mechanism for designing the market for transmission. In dealing with the uncertainties in equipment status/functionality, the thesis only suggests that …