D82. Acellular Dermal Matrix-assisted, Implant-based Breast Reconstruction: A Comparison of SurgiMend, AlloDERM, and DermACELL [PDF]
Daisy L. Spoer, MS+10 more
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D82. Improving Reconstructive Outcomes of Female Peri-pelvic Oncologic Defects [PDF]
Ashley Shin, BS+5 more
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Private Monitoring and Communication in Cartels: Explaining Recent Collusive Practices [PDF]
Motivated by recent cartel practices, a stable collusive agreement is characterized when firms' prices and quantities are private information. Conditions are derived whereby an equilibrium exists in which firms truthfully report their sales and then make
Andrzej Skrzypacz+2 more
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Herding and Contrarian Behavior in Financial Markets: An Experimental Analysis [PDF]
We are the first paper to analyse and confirm the existence and extent of rational informational herding and rational informational contrarianism in a financial market experiment, and to compare and contrast these with the equivalent irrational phenomena.
Park, A., Sgroi, Daniel
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Competition among Sellers in Securities Auctions [PDF]
We study simultaneous security-bid second-price auctions with competition among sellers for potential bidders. The sellers compete by designing ordered sets of securities that the bidders can offer as payment for the assets.
Alexander S Gorbenko+8 more
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All sky CMB map from cosmic strings integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect [PDF]
By actively distorting the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) over our past light cone, cosmic strings are unavoidable sources of non-Gaussianity.
Christophe Ringeval+4 more
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Overcoming Adverse Selection: How Public Intervention Can Restore Market Functioning [PDF]
The paper provides a first analysis of market jump starting and its two-way interaction between mechanism design and participation constraints. The government optimally overpays for the legacy assets and cleans up the market of its weakest assets ...
Aghion Philippe+5 more
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Optimal Policy Intervention and the Social Value of Public Information [PDF]
Svensson (2006) argues that Morris and Shin (2002) is, contrary to what is claimed, pro-transparency. This paper reexamines the issue but with an important modification to the original Morris and Shin framework.
Jonathan G. James, Phillip Lawler
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Target dependence of the annual modulation in direct dark matter searches
Due to Earth's revolution around the Sun, the expected scattering rate in direct dark matter searches is annually modulated. This modulation is expected to differ between experiments when given as a function of recoil energy $E_\text{R}$, e.g. due to the
Del Nobile, Eugenio+2 more
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When is it possible for one person to persuade another to change her action? We consider a symmetric information model where a sender chooses a signal to reveal to a receiver, who then takes a noncontractible action that affects the welfare of both ...
Emir Kamenica, Matthew Gentzkow
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