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Description:: This dissertation endogenizes information acquisition in two-player games across three different settings. The first chapter explores when moral hazard in a principal-agent contract can lead to pareto improvements when it is preceeded by information gathering. The second chapter studies how product differentiation affects the amount of market research done by...
Keyword:: Persuasion, Game Theory, Information Economics, Contracts, Microeconomics, and Moral Hazard
Subject:: Managerial Economics and Strategy
Creator:: Colin Shopp
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 11/25/2019
Date Modified:: 11/25/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Chapter 1 examines the question of how to sell a firm when potential buyers do not know how many other potential buyers there are. The seller can choose to sell the firm either through bilateral negotiations or through an auction. In equilibrium, if the seller observes the number of buyers...
Keyword:: Informed Principal, Product Markets, Negotiations, Mergers and Acquisitions, Contracts, and Auctions
Subject:: Finance
Creator:: Rajkamal Vasu
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/22/2019
Date Modified:: 04/22/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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