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Trade association disclosure rules, incentives to share information, and welfare
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In this article, the authors propose a monopolistic competition framework to analyze the effects of different disclosure rules used by trade associations on the incentives to share information and on the welfare of consumers, firms, and society.Citations
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The acquisition and utilization of information in new product alliances: A strength-of-ties perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the acquisition and utilization of information in new product alliances and suggest that horizontal alliances have lower levels of relational embeddedness and higher levels of knowledge redundancy than vertical alliances.
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Relying on the Information of Interested Parties
Paul Milgrom,John Roberts +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the conventional wisdom that competition among interested parties attempting to influence a decision maker by providing verifiable information brings out all the relevant information, and they find that if the decision maker is strategically sophisticated and well informed about the relevant variables and about the preferences of the interested party or parties, competition may be unnecessary; while if the decide maker is unsophisticated or not well informed, competition is not generally sufficient.
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Information sharing in credit markets
Marco Pagano,Tullio Jappelli +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a model with adverse selection where information sharing between lenders arises endogenously is presented, and it is shown that lenders' incentives to share information about borrowers are positively related to the mobility and heterogeneity of borrowers, to the size of the credit market and to advances in information technology.
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Agglomeration and Trade Revisited
TL;DR: In this article, an alternative model of agglomeration and trade is presented that displays the main features of the recent economic geography literature while allowing for the derivation of analytical results by means of simple algebra.
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The productivity advantages of large cities: distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection
TL;DR: In this paper, a generalised version of a tractable firm selection model and a standard model of agglomeration were used to show that firm selection cannot explain spatial productivity differences.
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Monopolistic competition and optimum product diversity
Avinash Dixit,Joseph E. Stiglitz +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Pettengill tests whether there is an excessive number of firms in a monopolistically competitive equilibrium by a device of considerable expository merit, and redistributes the resources thus released equally over the remaining firms in the sector, to see if welfare can be improved.
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Good News and Bad News: Representation Theorems and Applications
TL;DR: In this article, a notion of "favorableness" of news is introduced, characterized, and applied to four simple models: the arrival of good news about a firm's prospects always causes its share price to rise, more favorable evidence about an agent's effort leads the principal to pay a larger bonus, buyers expect that any product information withheld by a salesman is unfavorable to his product, and bidders figure that low bids by their competitors signal a low value for the object being sold.
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The Informational Role of Warranties and Private Disclosure about Product Quality
TL;DR: The Informational Role of Warranties and Private Disclosure about Product Quality Author(s): Sanford J. Grossman Source: Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 24, No. 3, Consumer Protection Regulation: A Conference Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Economy and the State (Dec., 1981), pp. 461-483 as mentioned in this paper
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Product Selection, Fixed Costs, and Monopolistic Competition
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effects of fixed costs and monopolistic competition on the selection of products and product characteristics in a set of interacting markets, including price discrimination, impact of monopoly competition on complementary products, and approaches to the problems of substitute products.
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Relying on the Information of Interested Parties
Paul Milgrom,John Roberts +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the conventional wisdom that competition among interested parties attempting to influence a decision maker by providing verifiable information brings out all the relevant information, and they find that if the decision maker is strategically sophisticated and well informed about the relevant variables and about the preferences of the interested party or parties, competition may be unnecessary; while if the decide maker is unsophisticated or not well informed, competition is not generally sufficient.