Information sharing between vertical hierarchies
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Information sharing between vertical hierarchies
When do competing principals independently choose to share the information obtained from their privately informed agents? Information sharing a¤ects contracting relationships within opponent organizations and induces playersstrategies to be correlated via the distortions channel. We show that principalsincentives to share information depend on the nature of upstream externalities and the corr...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Games and Economic Behavior
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0899-8256
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2013.02.005