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Salience and Information Asymmetry 显著性和信息不对称
Pub Date : 2020-01-27 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3483514
Elias Carroni, A. Mantovani, Antonio Minniti
In this paper we study optimal price setting by a seller that offers a supposedly higher-quality product in a market where a good of standard quality is already available. Consumers do not directly observe the quality of the product and their purchasing decisions are distorted by salient thinking. Consumer attention can be directed towards the product attribute - quality or price - that stands out in the market. We show that separation takes place only if the salience bias is moderate. Instead, if the salience bias is sufficiently strong, the seller prefers to set a low price to mitigate the detrimental effects of price salience, even though this strategy may not lead to separation. Our analysis suggests that the interplay between asymmetric information and salient thinking may provide an explanation for why price differences observed in markets do not always reflect quality differences.
在本文中,我们研究了在市场上已有标准质量的商品时,卖方提供假定的高质量产品的最优价格设定。消费者不会直接观察产品的质量,他们的购买决定被显著性思维扭曲。消费者的注意力可以被引导到在市场上脱颖而出的产品属性——质量或价格。我们表明,只有当显著性偏差是适度的分离才会发生。相反,如果显著性偏见足够强烈,卖方倾向于设定一个较低的价格,以减轻价格显著性的有害影响,即使这种策略可能不会导致分离。我们的分析表明,信息不对称和显著性思维之间的相互作用可以解释为什么市场上观察到的价格差异并不总是反映质量差异。
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引用次数: 1
Asymmetric Information and the Pecking (Dis)Order 信息不对称与啄(失)序
Pub Date : 2020-01-23 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2024666
P. Fulghieri, Diego García, D. Hackbarth
In this paper we show that when growth options represent a significant component of overall firm value, equity financing can dominate (i.e., be less dilutive than) debt financing under asymmetric information. In particular, we find that equity is more likely to dominate debt for younger firms with larger investment needs and with riskier growth opportunities. Thus, our model can explain why high-growth firms may prefer equity over debt, and then switch to debt as they mature. We also fid that equity financing is relatively more attractive when a firm already has debt in its capital structure. In addition, equity can dominate debt in multidivisional firms. Finally, we provide new predictions on the cross-sectional variation of capital structures.
在本文中,我们证明了当成长期权代表公司整体价值的重要组成部分时,在信息不对称的情况下,股权融资可以主导(即,比债务融资更少稀释)。特别是,我们发现,对于投资需求更大、增长机会风险更大的年轻公司来说,股权更有可能主导债务。因此,我们的模型可以解释为什么高增长公司可能更喜欢股权而不是债务,然后在它们成熟时转向债务。我们还发现,当一家公司的资本结构中已经有债务时,股权融资相对更具吸引力。此外,在多部门公司中,股权可以支配债务。最后,我们对资本结构的横截面变化提供了新的预测。
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引用次数: 23
Can Audits Deter Performance Exaggeration? 审计能阻止业绩夸大吗?
Pub Date : 2020-01-17 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3521203
Prithwiraj Mukherjee, Souvik Dutta, A. Anand
Exaggeration of performance metrics (revenue, product efficacy, ad viewership, etc.) by entrepreneurs to investors and clients is a common problem in high tech entrepreneurship. We model this as a principal-agent problem in a contract-theoretic setting, where the entrepreneur (agent) can undertake costly actions to strategically lie about a key performance metric (agent type) in order to extract higher payment from the investor (principal). We demonstrate that the optimal contract features widespread exaggeration by all entrepreneur types, and the investor exploits it as a screening mechanism to ordinally rank the entrepreneur by his true underlying type. We study the effect of an audit in which, if caught cheating, the agent pays a penalty. We show that rather than deterring fraud, audits actually amplify the degree of exaggeration.
企业家对投资者和客户夸大绩效指标(收入、产品功效、广告收视率等)是高科技创业中的一个常见问题。我们将其建模为契约理论背景下的委托代理问题,其中企业家(代理人)可以采取代价高昂的行动,战略性地隐瞒关键绩效指标(代理人类型),以便从投资者(委托人)那里获得更高的报酬。我们证明了最优契约在所有企业家类型中都具有广泛的夸大特征,投资者利用它作为一种筛选机制,根据企业家的真实潜在类型对其进行排序。我们研究了一种审计的效果,在这种审计中,如果被发现作弊,代理人将受到惩罚。我们发现,审计非但没有阻止欺诈,反而放大了夸大的程度。
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引用次数: 0
Do Sell-Side Analysts Say “Buy” While Whispering “Sell”? 卖方分析师嘴上说“买”,嘴上却说“卖”吗?
Pub Date : 2020-01-13 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3445084
Yushui Shi
I examine how sell-side equity analysts strategically disclose different information to the public and buy-side mutual fund managers to whom they are connected. I specifically test the possibility that analysts’ public recommendations tell the public to “buy” but they are whispering “sell” to their connected fund managers. I measure the likelihood of such “say buy/whisper sell” behavior based upon the percentage of managers’ selling stocks that analysts recommend buying. Using mutual fund managers’ votes for sell-side analysts in a Chinese “star analyst” competition as a proxy for managers’ evaluations of analysts, I find that managers are more likely to vote for the analysts who exhibit more say buy/whisper sell behavior with these managers. This result suggests that managers receive more-precise information in private communications with an analyst than in the analyst’s public recommendations and reward the favor by voting for the analyst in the “star analyst” competition. This different information disclosure by analysts results in a form of information asymmetry, which incurs a significant cost on uninformed investors; among analysts’ positive recommendations, the stocks bought by the managers who vote for the analysts outperform the stocks sold by these managers around the recommendation dates.
我研究了卖方股票分析师如何战略性地向公众和与他们有联系的买方共同基金经理披露不同的信息。我专门测试了一种可能性,即分析师在公开推荐时告诉公众“买入”,但他们对与自己有关系的基金经理悄悄说“卖出”。我根据经理人卖出分析师建议买入的股票的比例来衡量这种“说买/耳语卖”行为的可能性。利用共同基金经理在中国“明星分析师”竞赛中对卖方分析师的投票,作为经理对分析师评估的代理,我发现经理更有可能投票给那些与这些经理表现出更多“说买/耳语卖”行为的分析师。这一结果表明,与分析师的公开推荐相比,管理者在与分析师的私下沟通中获得了更精确的信息,并通过在“明星分析师”竞争中投票支持分析师来奖励这种青睐。分析师信息披露的不同导致了某种形式的信息不对称,这给不知情的投资者带来了巨大的成本;在分析师的积极推荐中,投票支持分析师的基金经理购买的股票表现优于这些基金经理在推荐日期前后卖出的股票。
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引用次数: 3
Private Debt Renegotiation and Financial Institutions’ Network 私人债务重新谈判和金融机构网络
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3530002
Christophe J. Godlewski, B. Sanditov
We study the influence of financial institutions’ network on private debt renegotiation outside of distress. Lenders with a network-central position have access to superior private information, are more experienced and trustworthy and have a greater reputational capital. Using a large sample of more than 10.000 loans issued in 25 European countries we find that network-central lenders have a significant influence on the renegotiation process. Such lenders increase the likelihood of renegotiation, the number of renegotiation rounds, and the number of amendments to the loan agreement. Our findings survive multiple robustness checks and confirm that access to superior information, greater experience, reputation, and trust encourages private debt renegotiation.
我们研究了金融机构网络对困境外私人债务再谈判的影响。处于网络中心地位的贷款人可以获得更好的私人信息,更有经验,更值得信赖,并拥有更大的声誉资本。通过对25个欧洲国家发放的1万多笔贷款的大样本分析,我们发现网络中心贷款人对重新谈判过程有重大影响。这样的贷款人增加了重新谈判的可能性、重新谈判的回合数和贷款协议修改的次数。我们的研究结果经受住了多次稳健性检验,并证实了获得优质信息、更丰富的经验、声誉和信任会鼓励私人债务重新谈判。
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引用次数: 0
How Do Financial Contracts Evolve for New Ventures 新企业的金融契约如何演变
Pub Date : 2019-12-31 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3512304
T. Jenkinson, Christian Rauch, Danying Fu
While previous research has characterized the key features of contracts between entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, little is known about how these contracts evolve over the life of new ventures. We overcome significant data challenges to compile a novel panel dataset of U.S. early-stage ventures that includes, for every company in our sample, the main financial and control rights offered to investors at each equity round. We also gather information on the characteristics of the investors and founders at each funding round. Regarding the terms associated with the first funding round, we find that in around 60% of early-stage ventures, the initial ‘Series A’ financing terms are very similar across companies. We refer to this as the default contract. Where deviations from this default contract occur, the terms are usually more investor-friendly. We then track how contractual terms evolve over funding rounds using a 3-direction classification. The ‘diagonal’ analysis compares the original share rights given to investors of each funding round at the time of the closing of each respective funding round. The ‘vertical’ dimension analyses how the rights of existing share classes are changed upon the introduction of new share classes at the closing of subsequent funding rounds. The ‘horizontal’ analysis compares the rights of all existing share classes at a given point in time. For successful companies, which have not suffered down-rounds, the default contract is often maintained across funding rounds. In such cases, we argue that post-money valuations can be a reasonable proxy for the economic value of the firm.
虽然以前的研究已经描述了企业家和风险资本家之间的合同的关键特征,但对于这些合同在新企业的生命周期中是如何演变的,我们知之甚少。我们克服了重大的数据挑战,编制了一个新的美国早期创业公司面板数据集,其中包括我们样本中的每家公司在每轮股权融资中向投资者提供的主要财务和控制权。我们也会在每一轮融资中收集投资者和创始人的特征信息。关于与第一轮融资相关的条款,我们发现,在大约60%的早期创业公司中,最初的“A轮”融资条款在公司之间非常相似。我们将其称为默认契约。当违约合同出现偏差时,条款通常对投资者更友好。然后,我们使用3个方向分类跟踪合同条款在融资轮次中的演变情况。“对角线”分析比较了在每轮融资结束时给予每轮融资投资者的原始股权。“垂直”维度分析了在后续融资轮结束时引入新股票类别后,现有股票类别的权利是如何变化的。“横向”分析在给定时间点比较所有现有股票类别的权利。对于那些成功的公司来说,没有经历过低迷的融资,默认合同通常在融资轮次中保持不变。在这种情况下,我们认为,融资后估值可以合理地代表公司的经济价值。
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引用次数: 4
Fiduciary Duties on the Temporal Edges of Agency Relationships 代理关系时间边缘上的信义义务
Pub Date : 2019-12-02 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3496858
Deborah A. DeMott
The duties that principals and agents owe each other are typically coterminous with the agency relationship itself. But sometimes temporal lines of clean demarcation do less work. The Chapter identifies situations in which an agent may owe duties-including fiduciary duties-to the principal prior to the formal start of their relationship, including any enforceable contract between the parties. Likewise, not all duties principals and agents owe each other end with the relationship. The Chapter identifies the rationales for duties at the temporal peripheries for an agency relationship and the extent to which they are derived from doctrines distinct from agency law. Issues in some contexts are amenable to resolution through bright-line determinations; others require nuanced and fact-specific inquiry. Issues that arise at the periphery of termination are complicated as a consequence of a distinct feature of agency relationships: both principal and agent hold ongoing power to terminate the relationship, albeit in breach of contract. Neither owes the other a duty of disclosure to the other concerning plans to terminate, including in most instances the agent's preparations to compete with the principal post-termination. And in the midst of agency relationships, agents, like principals, may negotiate to further their own interests, whether to continue the relationship under modified terms or bring it to an end. These structural consequences of agency require tempering either the claims to generality or the content of some theoretical accounts of fiduciary relationships more broadly, particularly those stressing the cognitive dimensions of agents' loyalty and demanding robust commitment from the agent. Agency law, which tolerates both preparations to compete post-termination as well as unilateral and undisclosed strategizing over exit, accommodates relationships between competent parties who may bargain on an interim basis to adjust the terms of their relationship. In this respect, as in others, agency relationships do not much resemble donative trusts, the assumed prototypes of many theoretical accounts of fiduciary relationships. Additionally, the quotidian and ubiquitous character of agency relationships lends these issues practical significance.
委托人和代理人相互承担的义务通常与代理关系本身是一致的。但有时候,明确的时间界线起不到什么作用。本章确定了代理人在其关系正式开始之前可能对委托人负有义务(包括信义义务)的情况,包括双方之间任何可执行的合同。同样,并不是所有的职责,委托人和代理人相互欠结束的关系。本章确定了代理关系的时间边缘义务的基本原理,以及它们在多大程度上源自与代理法不同的理论。在某些情况下,问题可以通过明确的决定来解决;另一些则需要细致入微的事实调查。由于代理关系的一个明显特征,在终止边缘出现的问题是复杂的:委托人和代理人都拥有持续的权力来终止关系,尽管违反了合同。任何一方都不负有向另一方披露终止计划的义务,在大多数情况下,包括代理人在终止后与委托人竞争的准备工作。在代理关系中,代理人和委托人一样,可能会为了自己的利益进行谈判,是在修改后的条件下继续这种关系,还是结束这种关系。代理的这些结构性后果要求我们在更广泛的范围内,对某些信托关系的理论描述的普遍性或内容进行调整,特别是那些强调代理人忠诚的认知维度和要求代理人做出强有力承诺的理论。机构法既允许在终止后为竞争做准备,也允许单方面和不公开的退出战略,这就容纳了可能在临时基础上进行谈判以调整其关系条件的主管各方之间的关系。在这方面,就像在其他方面一样,代理关系不太像捐赠信托,而捐赠信托是许多信托关系理论描述的假设原型。此外,代理关系的日常性和普遍性使这些问题具有现实意义。
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The Role of Information in the Discrepancy Between Average Prices and Expectations 信息在平均价格与预期差异中的作用
Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3501152
António M.R.G. Barbosa
Abstract In this paper I show how the existence of short-term trading causes a divergence between the average price and the average expectation of the fundamental value by embedding higher-order expectations –expectations of expectations of expectations...– into prices. Short-term trading arises when investors receive private information and (i) either net supply mean reverts or (ii) the release of additional information related to existing information is combined with residual uncertainty. Mean-reversion of net supply, brings the average expectation closer to the fundamental value than the average price after the release of private information. By the contrary, residual uncertainty and an incoming release of information brings the average price closer to the fundamental value than the average expectation before the new information is released. When both (i) and (ii) are present, the average expectation tends to be closer to the fundamental value than the average price in the periods immediately after information releases, but the opposite happens in the periods immediately before information releases.
在本文中,我展示了短期交易的存在如何通过嵌入高阶期望(期望的期望的期望)导致平均价格与基本价值的平均期望之间的分歧。——转化为价格。当投资者收到私人信息并且(i)净供应均值回归或(ii)与现有信息相关的附加信息的发布与剩余不确定性相结合时,就会出现短期交易。净供给均值回归使得私有信息发布后的平均期望比平均价格更接近基本价值。相反,剩余不确定性和即将发布的信息使平均价格比新信息发布前的平均预期更接近基本价值。当(i)和(ii)同时存在时,在信息发布之后的时段内,平均预期往往比平均价格更接近基本价值,而在信息发布之前的时段则相反。
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Inputs, Incentives, and Self-Selection at the Workplace 工作场所的投入、激励和自我选择
Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3510451
Francesco Amodio, Miguel A. Martínez-Carrasco
This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. Using daily records from a Peruvian egg production plant, we exploit a sudden change in the worker salary structure and find that workers' effort, firm profits, and worker participation change differentially along the two margins of input quality and worker type. Firm profits increase differentially from high productivity workers, but absenteeism and quits of these workers also differentially increase. Evidence shows that information asymmetries over inputs between workers and managers shape the response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace.
本文研究了输入信息不对称如何影响工作场所员工对激励和自我选择的反应。利用秘鲁一家鸡蛋生产厂的日常记录,我们利用了工人工资结构的突然变化,发现工人的努力、企业利润和工人参与在投入质量和工人类型的两个边缘上发生了不同的变化。高生产率工人的企业利润增长有差异,但这些工人的缺勤率和辞职率也有差异。有证据表明,员工和管理者之间的信息输入不对称影响了员工对工作场所激励和自我选择的反应。
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引用次数: 15
Censorship as Optimal Persuasion 审查是最优说服
Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3501474
A. Kolotilin, Tymofiy Mylovanov, Andriy Zapechelnyuk
We consider a Bayesian persuasion problem where a sender's utility depends only on the expected state. We show that upper censorship that pools the states above a cutoff and reveals the states below the cutoff is optimal for all prior distributions of the state if and only if the sender's marginal utility is quasi‐concave. Moreover, we show that it is optimal to reveal less information if the sender becomes more risk averse or the sender's utility shifts to the left. Finally, we apply our results to the problem of media censorship by a government.
我们考虑一个贝叶斯说服问题,其中发送方的效用仅取决于期望状态。我们证明,当且仅当发送者的边际效用是准凹的,对于状态的所有先验分布,集中了一个截止点以上的状态并揭示了截止点以下的状态的上层审查是最优的。此外,我们表明,如果发送者变得更加厌恶风险,或者发送者的效用向左移动,那么披露更少的信息是最优的。最后,我们将我们的结果应用于政府媒体审查的问题。
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