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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"market signaling"”.
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On the market: Privatization and 'new' populations at a metropolitan school fair
… in Stockholm’s competitive high school market and (2) How do schools within Stockholm’s competitive school market craft their identity? Data collection consisted of gathering viewbooks and taking field notes at Stockholm’s Gymnasiemässan, a high school fair, which hosts rising students …
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Essays on contract theory and behavioral economics
… of competition with non-exclusive contracts in a market where consumers are time-inconsistent. Non-exclusivity creates a stark asymmetry between immediate-costs goods and immediate-rewards goods. In the former, non-exclusivity does not affect the equilibrium and, when consumers are sophisticated, …
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Dynamic analysis of equilibrium selection in games
… of Kandori-Mailath-Rob (1993) in Spence's job-market signaling model. In contrast to Nldeke and Samuelson's (1997) analysis which showed the Riley equilibrium is selected only if it is undefeated, we show that the Riley equilibrium is always selected. The key which makes this difference is how …
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Essays on Applied Game Theory and Public Economics
… Beginning with the framework of a two-type labor market signaling game, the second chapter investigates how tests of limited reliability affect the nature of equilibria in signaling games with asymmetric information. Our results show that, if a test is inaccurate and costly, only pooling PBE …
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What insight do market participants gain from dividend increases?
This study examines the reactions of market makers and investors to large dividend increases to identify the motives for dividend increases. Uniquely, this study simultaneously tests the signaling and agency abatement motivations as explanations of the impact of dividend increases on stock prices …