Firms manufacturing highly innovative and complex products often rely on the expertise of their suppliers who provide critical components that enable core functionality of products. During the product design stage there is often considerable uncertainty about component production cost, and it is of interest to both the manufacturer and the supplier to enter into a collaborative relationship in ...

We provide a tractable model of counterparty risk in an intermediated risk transfer market, and analyze the consequences of this risk being private information. We show that unknown type information can be revealed when large trades are observable; however, the allocation is shown to be constrained inefficient. The inefficiency is highlighted by considering the imposition of a transaction tax, ...

Recently, there has been considerable interest among accounting researchers in the relation between asymmetric information and cost of capital. A number of empirical studies document associations between proxies for asymmetric information such as earnings quality and risk premiums. However, the theoretical foundation for these studies has yet to be fully established. In this study, we consider ...

We study the pricing of credit derivatives with asymmetric information. The managers have complete information on the value process of the firm and on the default threshold, while the investors on the market have only partial observations, especially about the default threshold. Different information structures are distinguished using the framework of enlargement of filtrations. We specify risk...

Online peer-to-peer (P2P) microloan lending practice is becoming prevalent worldwide. However, information asymmetry between lenders and borrowers in this market may create adverse selection and moral hazard problems that could eventually lead to a high risk of loan default. In the proposed study, we will develop a model to evaluate how imitation and language analysis can reduce information asy...

We propose a general equilibrium model for asset pricing that incorporates asymmetric information as the key element determining security prices. In our setting, the concepts of completeness, arbitrage, state price and equivalent martingale measure are extended to the case of asymmetric information. Our model shows that in a so-called quasi-complete market, agents with differential information ...

This paper provides evidence that intensified product market competition increases information asymmetry between corporate insiders and investors. I use volume and gains from insider trading as proxies for information asymmetry. I show that when a firm faces competitive threats insiders purchase and sell more stocks and their trading better predicts future stock returns and long-term profitabil...

In this paper we examine contracts to coordinate the capacity decision of a vendor who has been hired by a client to provide call center support. We consider a variety of contracts, all based on our observations of contracts used by one large vendor. We examine the role of different contract features such as pay-per-time, pay-per-call, service level agreements, and constraints on service rates ...

This paper examines the equilibrium consequences of strategic behavior of mutual fund managers who withhold information about their funds and their managerial ability. We show that under this information asymmetry, low skills in the industry can result in a growth of passive management. A separating equilibrium in which skilled managers actively manage funds arises only if their compensation de...