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American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. 13:273-308
When competing firms possess overlapping sets of investors, maximizing shareholder value may provide incentives that distort competitive behavior, affecting pricing, entry, contracting, and virtually all strategic interactions among firms. We propose
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Journal of the European Economic Association. 20:116-149
We study disappointment and platform exit among new bidders in an online auction marketplace. In particular, we study a hybrid auction format with a “Buy-It-Now” option, which, when executed, will abruptly end the auction and cancel any standing
Autor:
MATTHEW BACKUS, ANDREW T. LITTLE
Publikováno v:
American Political Science Review. 114:724-743
Political decision makers make choices in a complex and uncertain world, where even the most qualified experts may not know what policies will succeed. Worse, if these experts care about their reputation for competence, they may be averse to admittin
Publikováno v:
AEA Papers and Proceedings. 110:557-560
The common ownership hypothesis, that the presence of diversified investors with holdings in competing firms distorts behavior away from own-firm profit maximization, has generated substantial controversy. Here, we focus on the problem of measuring c
Autor:
Matthew Backus
Publikováno v:
Econometrica. 88:2415-2444
The correlation between productivity and competition is an oft observed but incompletely understood result. Some suggest that there is a treatment effect of competition on measured productivity, for example, through a reduction of managerial slack. O
Publikováno v:
Bargaining ISBN: 9783030766658
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76666-5_17
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76666-5_17
Overprecision--excessive faith in the accuracy of one's beliefs--may be the most consequential of the many biases in judgment. We offer a theory to explain the ubiquity of overprecision as a consequence of finite cognitive capacity. The individual wh
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https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/evcx2
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/evcx2
Publikováno v:
Journal of Political Economy. 127:1599-1628
We outline a framework for the empirical analysis of signaling games based on three features: sorting, incentive compatibility, and beliefs. We apply it to document cheap-talk signaling in the use ...
Models of firm conduct are the cornerstone of both theoretical and empirical work in industrial organization. A recent contribution (Berry and Haile, 2014) has suggested the use of exclusion restrictions to test alternative conduct models. We propose
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https://doi.org/10.3386/w28350
https://doi.org/10.3386/w28350
Publikováno v:
EC
Bargaining breakdown plagues bargaining in environments with incomplete information. Does communication help or harm? On May 23, 2016, eBay Germany's Best Offer platform introduced unstructured communication allowing desktop users, but not the mobile
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https://doi.org/10.3386/w27984
https://doi.org/10.3386/w27984