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The Accounting Review, 2006
At the heart of decentralization lies the notion that tasks are delegated by owners to managers who possess superior local information. The extent of this information asymmetry is often an endogenous construct, as it is influenced by the owner's choice of internal accounting systems and the manager's investment in acquiring local expertise.
Madhav V. Rajan, Richard E. Saouma
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At the heart of decentralization lies the notion that tasks are delegated by owners to managers who possess superior local information. The extent of this information asymmetry is often an endogenous construct, as it is influenced by the owner's choice of internal accounting systems and the manager's investment in acquiring local expertise.
Madhav V. Rajan, Richard E. Saouma
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Information asymmetry and information sharing
Government Information Quarterly, 2007Abstract Although much digital divide research focuses on access to technology, another cause of the divide is the lack of information awareness that we call information asymmetry. Information asymmetry often stems from inadequate information sharing and can result in negative consequences for both the information poor and the information rich ...
Gavin Clarkson +2 more
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Conference calls and information asymmetry
Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2003Abstract We hypothesize that conference calls are voluntary disclosures that lead to long-term reductions in information asymmetry among equity investors. Cross-sectional and time-series tests show that information asymmetry is negatively associated with conference call activity.
Stephen Brown +2 more
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Salience and Information Asymmetry
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019In 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.
Elias Carroni +2 more
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Regulation and information asymmetry
Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, 2008PurposeThis paper seeks to examine the potential for regulation to reduce information asymmetries between firm insiders and outside investors.Design/methodology/approachExtensive prior research has established that there are substantial effects of information asymmetry in seasoned equity offers (SEOs).
Robyn McLaughlin, Assem Safieddine
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Hemispheric Asymmetry Of Informational Processing
International Journal of Neuroscience, 1983Showing that all the biophysical and biochemical modifications which take place within the nervous system contribute in one way or another, to the development of informational and decisional processes, the author describes the specifics of those processes. One of them is represented by the relative symmetry of those processes, because informational and
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Trade Credit and Informational Asymmetry
The Journal of Finance, 1987ABSTRACTCommonly used trade credit terms implicitly define a high interest rate that operates as an efficient screening device where information about buyer default risk is asymmetrically held. By offering trade credit, a seller can identify prospective defaults more quickly than if financial institutions were the sole providers of shortâterm financing.
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2015
This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households belonging to the same network.
Joachim De Weerdt +2 more
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This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households belonging to the same network.
Joachim De Weerdt +2 more
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Information asymmetry and reentry
Economics Letters, 2014zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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