Selling information to competitive firms
| Autor: | Jakub Kastl, Salvatore Piccolo, Marco Pagnozzi |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Pagnozzi, Marco, Piccolo, Salvatore, Kastl, Jakub |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Economics and Econometrics
05 social sciences Agency cost Final good Monopolistic competition Willingness to pay 0502 economics and business Agency (sociology) Perfect competition Production (economics) Business 050207 economics Settore SECS-P/01 - Economia Politica Private information retrieval Industrial organization 050205 econometrics |
| Popis: | Internal agency conflicts distort firms' choices and reduce social welfare. To limit these distortions, principals dealing with privately informed agents often acquire information from specialized intermediaries, such as auditing and certification companies, that are able to ascertain, and credibly disclose, agents' private information. We study how the structures of both the information provision and the final good markets affect information accuracy. A monopolistic information provider may supply imprecise information to perfectly competitive firms, even if the precision of this information can be increased at no cost. This is due to a price effect of information: although more accurate information reduces agency costs and allows firms to increase production, it also results in a lower price in the final good market, which reduces principals' willingness to pay for information. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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