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Goltsman, Maria; Pavlov, Gregory - 2012

information about their costs. We show that cheap talk between the firms cannot transmit any information. However, if the firms …

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Immigrant Employment and the Contract Enforcement Costs of Offshoring

Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Karpaty, Patrik; Kneller, Richard; … - 2022

enforcement costs. Then, we bring our conjectures to rich administrative Swedish microlevel data that include specific information …

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Do Immigrants Spur Offshoring? Firm-Level Evidence

Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Karpaty, Patrik; Kneller, Richard; … - 2016

information or trust is lacking. Immigrant employees could reduce such offshoring costs through their knowledge of their former …

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Pricing in retail markets with low search costs: Evidence from a price comparison website

Lindgren, Charlie; Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Rudholm, Niklas - 2021

increasingly common around the world. Using daily information on prices, click-throughs, and the number of retailers for a sample …

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Immigrant employment and the contract enforcement costs of offshoring

Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Karpaty, Patrik; Kneller, Richard; … - In: Review of World Economics 160 (2024) 3, pp. 953-981

Swedish microlevel data that include specific information about the characteristics of employees, manufacturing firms and …

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Modelling information and hedging: the exporting firm

Broll, Udo; Eckwert, Bernhard - 2009

The paper examines the economic role of modelling information on the decision problem of an exporting firm under … exchange rate risk and hedging. Information is described in terms of market transparency, i.e., a publicly observable signal … conveys more information about the random foreign exchange rate. We analyze the interaction between market transparency and …

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Selecting the best when selection is hard

Drugov, Mikhail; Meyer, Margaret A.; Möller, Marc - 2022

-to-noise ratio. A close relationship with expected optimal bias under cardinal information helps explain this surprising result …

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Reputational Concerns and Advice-Seeking at Work

Heursen, Lea; Friess, Svenja; Chugunova, Marina - 2023

We examine the impact of reputational concerns on seeking advice. While seeking can improve performance, it may affect how others perceive the seeker's competence. In an online experiment with white-collar professionals (N=2,521), we test how individuals navigate this tradeoff and if others'...

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Competition in Search Markets with Naive Consumers

Gamp, Tobias; Krähmer, Daniel - 2022

We study the interplay between quality provision and consumer search in a search market where firms may design products of inferior quality to promote them to naive consumers who fail to fully understand product characteristics. We derive an equilibrium in which both superior and inferior...

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Biased Beliefs in Search Markets

Gamp, Tobias; Krähmer, Daniel - 2022

We study the implications of biased consumer beliefs for search market outcomes in the seminal framework due to Diamond (1971). Biased consumers base their search strategy on a belief function which specifies for any (true) distribution of utility offers in the market a possibly incorrect...

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