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Information Asymmetry among Investors and Strategic Bidding in Peer-to-Peer Lending 投资者信息不对称与p2p借贷中的战略竞价
Pub Date : 2020-06-11 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3403211
Kai Lu, Zaiyan Wei, T. Chan
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending became a global phenomenon in recent years. Despite their prominence in the “FinTech” era, P2P platforms remain a risky investment because of the high default rate of unsecured personal loans funded on such platforms. In contrast, the rate of return can be much higher than that of other investments if P2P loans are repaid. Therefore, investors of P2P loans need information about borrowers’ ability to repay. An important channel is to learn from other investors who may have information advantages. We argue that, because collective effort from investors is required in P2P lending, it could be optimal for informed investors to bid early in projects with the purpose of signaling the quality. With a unique data set from Prosper.com, we find that informed investors are indeed more likely to bid in the early stage of a project with a low probability of being funded, whereas uninformed investors will follow. The “squatting” behavior (early bidding) of informed investors facilitates information spillover to uninformed investors, benefitting the investors and borrowers who otherwise may not raise sufficient funding. Our findings also have implications for P2P lending platforms on how to manage the information asymmetry and strategic behaviors of investors.
近年来,点对点(P2P)借贷成为一种全球现象。尽管P2P平台在“金融科技”时代声名显赫,但由于在这些平台上融资的无担保个人贷款的违约率很高,P2P平台仍然是一项高风险投资。相比之下,如果P2P贷款得到偿还,回报率可能比其他投资高得多。因此,P2P贷款的投资者需要借款人的还款能力信息。一个重要的渠道是向其他可能具有信息优势的投资者学习。我们认为,由于P2P借贷需要投资者的集体努力,对于知情的投资者来说,在项目早期投标是最优的,目的是表明质量。通过一组来自Prosper.com的独特数据,我们发现,知情的投资者确实更有可能在项目获得资助的可能性较低的早期阶段投标,而不知情的投资者则会跟进。知情投资者的“抢注”行为(提前竞价)有利于信息外溢给不知情的投资者,使投资者和借款人受益,否则他们可能无法筹集到足够的资金。我们的研究结果也对P2P借贷平台如何管理信息不对称和投资者的战略行为具有启示意义。
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引用次数: 6
Delays at the Border: Court Efficiency and Delays in Public Contracts 边界上的拖延:法院效率和公共合同的拖延
Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3744074
F. Decarolis, Gianpiero Mattera, C. Menon
This study assesses the causal effect of the inefficiency of the judicial system on the delay in the execution of public contracts. We apply a border-discontinuity design that leverages the variation in the length of civil proceedings across Italian jurisdictions and a granular dataset of public contracts. Using a quantile regression approach, we uncover a non-linear effect of court inefficiency: slow courts lead to further delay for long-overdue contracts, and to less delay for works that are on track (or short-overdue). We argue that these results are consistent with a setting in which inefficient judiciaries have opposite effects on contractors’ expected gains from suing the contracting authority depending on the extent of the delay in delivering the contract.
本研究评估了司法系统效率低下对公共合同延迟执行的因果影响。我们采用边界不连续性设计,利用意大利各司法管辖区民事诉讼时间长短的差异和公共合同的细粒度数据集。使用分位数回归方法,我们发现了法院效率低下的非线性影响:缓慢的法院导致长期逾期合同的进一步延误,并减少了正在进行(或短期逾期)的工程的延误。我们认为,这些结果与这样一种情况是一致的,即效率低下的司法机构对承包商起诉合同当局的预期收益产生相反的影响,这取决于交付合同的延迟程度。
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引用次数: 1
Information Sharing in an Online Marketplace with Co-opetitive Sellers 在线市场中合作竞争卖家的信息共享
Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.1111/POMS.13460
Guo Li, Hong Zheng, Lin Tian
In recent years, the rapid development of online marketplaces has not only given rise to co-opetitive relationships between sellers but also to information asymmetry between online marketplaces and sellers. This paper studies information sharing in an e-commerce setting consisting of an online marketplace, an upstream manufacturer and a reseller, where the online marketplace possesses superior demand information while the manufacturer and reseller engage in a co-opetitive structure. The reseller procures the products from the manufacturer under a wholesale price contract, and both the manufacturer and the reseller sell the products through the online marketplace by paying a proportional commission fee. We examine the online marketplace's four information-sharing strategies: no information sharing (S1), full information sharing (S2), and partial information sharing with the manufacturer (S3) or with the reseller (S4). Our analysis shows that when the intensity of competition between the manufacturer and reseller is relatively low and the demand variability is moderate, the online marketplace should adopt full information sharing; otherwise, it will prefer to share its demand information with the manufacturer only. Moreover, interestingly, we find that the manufacturer always prefers the scenario of full information sharing to the scenario that endows it with an informational advantage against the reseller. By contrast, the reseller never prefers full information sharing. Depending on the competitive intensity and demand variability, the reseller will either prefer the scenario in which the online marketplace shares the demand information with it only or the scenario in which demand information is shared with the manufacturer only. The rationale for these results hinges on the interactions of the signaling cost, the efficiency effect, and the co-opetitive relationship between the manufacturer and the reseller.
近年来,网络市场的快速发展不仅导致了卖家之间的合作竞争关系,也导致了网络市场与卖家之间的信息不对称。本文研究了由在线市场、上游制造商和分销商组成的电子商务环境下的信息共享问题,其中在线市场拥有优越的需求信息,制造商和分销商处于合作竞争结构。经销商根据批发价格合同从制造商处采购产品,制造商和经销商通过在线市场支付一定比例的佣金销售产品。我们研究了在线市场的四种信息共享策略:不共享信息(S1)、完全共享信息(S2)以及与制造商或经销商共享部分信息(S3)。分析表明,当制造商和经销商之间的竞争强度较低且需求变化适中时,在线市场应采取充分的信息共享;否则,它宁愿只与制造商共享其需求信息。此外,有趣的是,我们发现制造商总是更喜欢完全信息共享的场景,而不是赋予其对经销商的信息优势的场景。相比之下,经销商从不喜欢完全的信息共享。根据竞争强度和需求可变性的不同,经销商可能更喜欢在线市场只与自己共享需求信息的情况,也可能更喜欢只与制造商共享需求信息的情况。这些结果的基本原理取决于信号成本、效率效应以及制造商和经销商之间的合作竞争关系的相互作用。
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引用次数: 100
The Risk-Relevance of Street Earnings 街头收益的风险相关性
Pub Date : 2020-05-29 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3222893
Frank Heflin, K. Kolev, Benjamin C. Whipple
Risk is an important earnings attribute in valuation models and the FASB’s conceptual framework identifies providing information about risk as a primary objective for earnings. Managers and analysts, however, state that they provide non-GAAP earnings to produce numbers that are more focused on core or cash-based earnings components. They do not discuss risk-relevance as a motivation. We ask whether, by focusing on one earnings attribute (core earnings), non-GAAP earnings sacrifice another important earnings attribute (risk-relevance). We find that non-GAAP earnings capture the more risk-relevant components of GAAP earnings, although non-GAAP exclusions are not risk-irrelevant. Further, not only do non-GAAP earnings better capture information about current risk, they also provide more information about future firm risk. Finally, when comparing exclusion types, we find that special item exclusions contain more risk-relevant information than other item exclusions. Overall, we conclude that in constructing non-GAAP earnings to better capture core earnings, non-GAAP earnings also provide investors with a more risk-focused earnings construct.
在估值模型中,风险是一个重要的收益属性,FASB的概念框架将提供有关风险的信息确定为收益的主要目标。然而,基金经理和分析师表示,他们提供非公认会计准则收益是为了得出更侧重于核心或基于现金的收益组成部分的数字。他们没有讨论风险相关性作为动机。我们要问的是,通过关注一个收益属性(核心收益),非公认会计准则收益是否牺牲了另一个重要的收益属性(风险相关性)。我们发现,非GAAP收益捕获了GAAP收益中与风险相关的部分,尽管非GAAP排除并非与风险无关。此外,非公认会计准则收益不仅能更好地捕捉当前风险的信息,还能提供更多有关公司未来风险的信息。最后,在比较排除类型时,我们发现特殊项目排除比其他项目排除包含更多的风险相关信息。总的来说,我们得出的结论是,在构建非公认会计准则收益以更好地捕捉核心收益时,非公认会计准则收益也为投资者提供了一个更注重风险的收益结构。
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引用次数: 3
A Theory of Rational Investment Screens 理性投资筛选理论
Pub Date : 2020-05-18 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3644532
Paul E. Fischer, M. Heinle
We develop a model to explain the value and consequences of investment screens, which are commonly employed by sophisticated investors. In the model, some stock-market investors are uncertain about the quality of private information before they acquire it and, in equilibrium, rationally use prior prices and public information as a screen to predict the returns from information acquisition. We find that larger price surprises lead to more information acquisition, which implies higher future price volatility and trading volumes. We also highlight the determinants of the equilibrium value of investment screens, such as informed trade, noise trade, and public information.
我们开发了一个模型来解释投资筛选的价值和后果,这通常被老练的投资者所采用。在模型中,部分股票市场投资者在获取私人信息之前对其质量不确定,在均衡状态下,理性地以先前的价格和公开信息作为屏幕来预测信息获取的收益。我们发现,更大的价格意外导致更多的信息获取,这意味着更高的未来价格波动和交易量。我们还强调了投资屏幕均衡价值的决定因素,如知情贸易、噪音贸易和公共信息。
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引用次数: 4
Impact of Information Asymmetry and Limited Production Capacity on Business Interruption Insurance 信息不对称和有限生产能力对中断保险的影响
Pub Date : 2020-05-13 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3184530
Yuan-Mao Kao, N. B. Keskin, Kevin H. Shang
We consider a firm that faces a potential disruption in its normal operations can purchase business interruption (BI) insurance from an insurer to guard against the disruption risk. The firm makes demand forecasts and can put a recovery effort if a disruption occurs; both are unobservable to the insurer. Accordingly, the insurer offers BI insurance to the firm while facing adverse selection and moral hazard. We first find that, because of the joint effect of limited production capacity and self-impelled recovery effort, the firm with a lower demand forecast benefits more from BI insurance than that with a higher demand forecast. Anticipating a higher premium, the low-demand firm has an incentive to pretend to have the higher demand forecast to obtain more profit. We then derive the optimal insurance contracts to deal with the information asymmetry and show how the firm’s characteristics affect the optimal contracts. Both high- and low-demand contracts are affected by the firm’s operational characteristics in the same direction, and the informational characteristics impact those contracts differently. We also analyze the case in which the firm can choose its initial capacity and find that, from the firm’s perspective, capacity and BI insurance could be either substitutes or complements. This paper was accepted by Vishal Gaur, operations management.
我们认为,一家公司在其正常运营中面临潜在中断时,可以向保险公司购买业务中断(BI)保险,以防范中断风险。该公司进行需求预测,并在中断发生时做出恢复努力;两者对保险公司来说都是不可察觉的。因此,在面临逆向选择和道德风险的情况下,保险人向企业提供商业智能保险。我们首先发现,由于有限的生产能力和自我推动的恢复努力的共同作用,需求预测较低的企业比需求预测较高的企业从商业损失保险中获益更多。预期更高的溢价,低需求公司有动机假装有更高的需求预测,以获得更多的利润。然后推导出处理信息不对称的最优保险契约,并说明企业特征如何影响最优契约。高需求契约和低需求契约都受到企业经营特征在同一方向上的影响,而信息特征对这两种契约的影响不同。我们还分析了企业可以选择初始生产能力的情况,发现从企业的角度来看,生产能力和商业智能保险可以互为替代,也可以互为补充。本文被运营管理专业的Vishal Gaur接受。
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引用次数: 4
Information Inequality and Role of Public Information 信息不平等与公共信息的作用
Pub Date : 2020-05-11 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3566812
Jin Yeub Kim, Myungkyu Shim
Transparent disclosures of public information might be one natural policy to reduce information inequality among individuals. We conduct a welfare analysis of such policy by introducing ex-ante heterogeneity in individuals' private information in a class of economies with dispersed information and externalities. We find that, paradoxically, welfare unambiguously increases when information inequality widens through greater precision of private information for the already informationally-rich individuals. We also show that the greater the information inequality, the more likely that public information reduces welfare. Our findings suggest caution in making information policies that aim to narrow informational gap with better public information.
透明地披露公共信息可能是减少个人之间信息不平等的一项自然政策。我们通过在一类具有分散信息和外部性的经济体中引入个人私人信息的事前异质性,对此类政策进行福利分析。我们发现,矛盾的是,当信息不平等通过对已经信息丰富的个人的更精确的私人信息而扩大时,福利无疑会增加。我们还表明,信息不平等越大,公共信息减少福利的可能性就越大。我们的研究结果表明,在制定旨在通过更好的公共信息缩小信息差距的信息政策时要谨慎。
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引用次数: 0
Optimal Object Assignment Mechanisms With Imperfect Type Verification 具有不完全类型验证的最优对象分配机制
Pub Date : 2020-05-07 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3581442
J. Pereyra, Francisco Silva
There are objects of different quality to be assigned to agents. Agents can be assigned at most one object and there are not enough high quality objects for every agent. The social planner is unable to use transfers to give incentives for agents to convey their private information; instead, she is able to imperfectly verify their reports. We characterize a mechanism that maximizes welfare, where agents face different lotteries over the various objects, depending on their report. We then apply our main result to the case of college admissions. We find that optimal mechanisms are, in general, ex-post inefficient and do strictly better than the standard mechanisms that are typically studied in the matching literature.
将不同质量的对象分配给代理。智能体最多只能被分配一个对象,并且没有足够的高质量对象分配给每个智能体。社会计划者无法用转移来激励代理人传递他们的私人信息;相反,她能够不完美地核实他们的报告。我们描述了一种最大化福利的机制,其中代理在各种对象上面临不同的彩票,这取决于他们的报告。然后,我们将我们的主要结果应用到大学录取的案例中。我们发现,一般来说,最优机制是事后效率低下的,并且比匹配文献中典型研究的标准机制做得更好。
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引用次数: 1
Political Economy of Crisis Response 危机应对的政治经济学
Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3604320
A. Gitmez, K. Sonin, Austin L. Wright
We offer a model in which heterogeneous agents make individual decisions with negative external effects such as the extent of social distancing during pandemics. Because of the externality, the agents have different individual and political preferences over the policy response. Personally, they might prefer a low-level response, yet would vote for a higher one because it deters the others - even if simultaneously decreasing their personal benefits. The effect is even more pronounced in information acquisition: agents would want one level of slant in the information they base their actions on and a different level of slant in public announcements. The model accounts for numerous empirical regularities of the public response to COVID-19.
我们提供了一个模型,在这个模型中,异质主体做出具有负面外部影响的个体决策,例如在大流行期间保持社会距离的程度。由于外部性,代理人对政策反应有不同的个人偏好和政治偏好。就个人而言,他们可能更喜欢低水平的回应,但也会投票给高水平的回应,因为这会吓退其他人——即使同时减少他们的个人利益。这种影响在信息获取中更为明显:代理希望他们的行动所依据的信息有一个层次的倾斜,而在公开公告中则有另一个层次的倾斜。该模型解释了公众应对COVID-19的许多经验规律。
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引用次数: 4
Welfare Maximizing Allocation Without Transfers 没有转移的福利分配最大化
Pub Date : 2020-04-27 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3586246
M. Dogan, M. Uyanik
Abstract This paper studies welfare maximizing allocation of indivisible objects to ex-ante identical agents in the absence of monetary transfers. The agents, each with a unit demand, share a common ranking of the objects, and are privately informed about their own valuations. The structure of the optimal allocation policy depends on the agents’ relative valuation of the objects and the variation of this relative valuation across different types. When this variation is small, the required loss of welfare for eliciting agents’ private information exceeds its benefits. In this case, evenly randomized allocation is optimal. When this variation is significantly large, it is optimal to waste the less preferred object—not always allocate it to agents—to provide necessary incentives for information elicitation. The planner then uses this information to increase the frequency of allocating the more preferred object to the agent favored by the first best policy. Regardless of the size of the variation, it is never optimal to waste the more preferred object. We also propose an exchange game that implements the incentive efficient allocation.
摘要本文研究了在没有货币转移的情况下,不可分割对象分配给事前相同主体的福利最大化问题。每个代理人都有一个单位需求,共享一个共同的物品排名,并私下告知他们自己的估值。最优分配策略的结构取决于agent对目标的相对估值以及这种相对估值在不同类型之间的变化。当这种变化很小时,获取代理人私人信息所需的福利损失超过其收益。在这种情况下,均匀随机分配是最优的。当这种差异非常大时,最优的做法是浪费不太受欢迎的对象——而不是总是将其分配给代理——以提供必要的激励来获取信息。然后,规划器使用此信息增加将更受青睐的对象分配给第一个最佳策略所青睐的代理的频率。无论变化的大小如何,浪费更受欢迎的对象从来都不是最优的。我们还提出了一个实现激励有效配置的交换博弈。
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