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investigate this question in case that the individual probability functions are based on different information sets. Under … any overlaps between different persons' information sets. The solutions are derived from an axiomatic system that models … parameter-free, and that they incorporate each individual's information although the individuals need not communicate their …
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degrees. When the decision maker consults only a single expert, the expert withholds substantial information from the decision …
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dedicated to information gathering, either in rural or wholesale urban markets or to transport negotiation. Paid per unit … product. As it is the case in many other countries, information provided by MIS is of little help to Senegalese market … gardeners. The updated and more targeted access to information through MANOBI services allows producers to improve their …
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through partial information revelation (a `strategic' effect). We characterize the optimal initial contract, as a function of … separation or strategic, partial, information revelation. Last, institutional rules imposing immediate payments to the firm help …
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We investigate the interactions between optimal regulation and external credit constraints. When part of a regulated ¯rm is owned by foreign investors, a credit-constrained country who wants to send pro¯ts abroad has to generate enough surplus in the trade account in order to compensate...
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risk preference are a bank's private information. We show that ex ante constraints waste the superior risk information of a …
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This paper builds on Faure-Grimaud and Martimort’s [Economics Letters 71 (2001) 75-82] analysis of intermediated contracting. I argue that intermediated contracting permits one form of auditing, in which the sub-contract offered to the firm is examined, contingent on the intermediary’s...
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This study analyzes the interaction of agency problems in public policy and of agency problems inside the firm: it investigates the case of a large privatized firm subject to many policy constraints. The last steps of Telefonica's privatization were designed to promote a disperse ownership and...
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In most countries, banks’ equity holdings in firms that borrow from then are rather small. In light of the theoretical literature, this is somewhat surprising. For example, according to agency cost models, allowing banks to hold equity would seem to alleviate firms’ asset substitution moral...
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. On one hand, the pooling of information within bidding rings increases the precision of competing estimates. We … information is distributed. The experimental results are consistent with our theoretical predictions for different value and …
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