[PDF] Top 20 Essays in economics of information and optimal contracting

... We study a setup where a cashless entrepreneur seeks capital to fi- nance an investment project. The entrepreneur is either of high-productivity (a good type) or of low productivity (a bad type). The entrepreneur is pri- ... See full document

... this information cor- ...of information to make voters ...additional information is not always beneficial if it affects the strategic behaviour of policy ...their information is of better ... See full document

... the optimal level of propaganda for the home government can be non-monotonic over these degrees of respon- ...the optimal level of hostility can have a discontinuous jump over the relative benefit of ... See full document

... A key feature of the notices is that the two types implicitly attribute different amounts of bad news to the months before dislocations. The notice date represents an important point in the pro- cess that disperses ... See full document

... There is a vast literature on dynamic experimentation focusing on rational experi- menters. Rothschild (1974) is the first known model of a seller learning about the demand by charging different prices and observing the ... See full document

... three essays considering the role of private information in economic ...mitigate information and enforcement frictions that impede the provision of first best insurance against income ...the ... See full document

... Communication Within Organizations: The importance of communication in organizations has been long recognized in economics (Gibbons et al. 2013). Early contributions that view an organization as an optimizer of ... See full document

... of information provision interventions to address the energy efficiency ...efficiency information is presented affects the perception of cost savings related to the use of energy-efficient ...precise ... See full document

... This thesis consists of three papers in the broad field of Applied Economics. I focus on three “soft factors”, namely, face-to-face communication, brief social inter- actions and information updates. I ... See full document

... By using a Digitised Thesis, I accept that Trinity College Dublin bears no legal responsibility for the accuracy, legality or comprehensiveness of materials contained within the thesis, and that Trinity College Dublin ... See full document

... Social insurance take-up. The data provide information on the take-up of work- related social insurance benefits, such as paid family leave, paid sick leave and un- employment benefits. Paid family leave includes ... See full document

... the information on short-time work in my dataset is limited to the time period between June 2008 and December 2010, the aggregate data suggest that my dataset covers the relevant time ... See full document

... Research from the last 30 years suggests an important role of fairness in economic trans- actions. The Ultimatum Game — which models the last round of a negotiation between a buyer (proposer) and a seller (responder) — ... See full document

... vate information about match quality, target the wrong ...but optimal contracts—which likely lie outside of the set of contracts considered here—must encourage compliance only among high-value ... See full document

... The first chapter is entitled “Quitting: The Downside of Great Expectations in Competitions.” This research examines ranked professional athletes who compare themselves with their opponents. Athletes with better rankings ... See full document

... The results above focus only on the posterior mode, and the following analysis further investigates the patterns of the posterior distributions. For the correctly classified vertices, our categorical classification based ... See full document

... focus on the information sharing role of the platform. (For example Leitner (2012), Bennardo, Pagano and Piccolo (2013) and Goldstein and Leitner (2013)). Amount them, the most closely-related paper to ours is ... See full document

... Using the same sample of schools, but with pupil level data, Eyles and Machin 2018 account for this potential source of bias by instrumenting attendance at an academy with attendance at [r] ... See full document

... additional information that should highlight the initial ...provides information about the payoff relevant state of the ...the information processing can be ‘imperfect’ in two ways: an agent might ... See full document

... In this paper, we combine the two approaches. We set up a quantitative dynamic model in which individuals live for several periods, some as singles and some married, as part of a couple. Marital status is determined at ... See full document