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This Paper studies the consequences of price discrimination in a market for experts’ services. In the case of experts …
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We study a two-period model of committee decision-making where members differ in their levels of efficiency. They may acquire costly information that enhances their ability to make a correct decision. We focus on the impact of transparency. We show that the principal's initial utility is higher...
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that the equilibrium behaviour of experts and consumers in credence goods markets sensitively depends on the details of the …
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technically unfeasible or does not respond to a genuine customer need. To screen good ideas the entrepreneur needs to hire experts … complementary. In such cases the entrepreneur can form a partnership with the experts. Yet very valuable ideas cannot be shared …
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This paper studies price competition between experts and discounters in a market for credence goods. While experts can … giving any advice. The unobservability of diagnosis effort induces experts to use their tariffs as signaling devices. This … makes them vulnerable to competition by discounters. We explore the conditions under which experts survive competition by …
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fiscal policy and reject the hypothesized value of the multiplier. In some cases, autocoherence induces the experts to make …
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This paper studies the trade-offs that an expert with ideological biases faces in designing his model. I assume the perceived model must be autocoherent, in that its use by all agents delivers a self-concerming equilibrium. The exercise is carried in the context of a simplified AS-AD model,...
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of a country's institutions, heterogeneity, and a number of different international indices and rankings. I have little … success; small countries are more open to international trade than large countries, but are not systematically different …
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equity markets; international imbalances and foreign reserve adequacy; macroeconomic policies; and institutional and …
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Conventional wisdom holds that protectionism is counter-cyclic; tariffs, quotas and the like grow during recessions. While that may have been a valid description of the data before the Second World War, it is no longer accurate. In the post-war era, protectionism has not actually moved...
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