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Production and financial policies under asymmetric information

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  • Jacques Drèze
  • Enrico Minelli
  • Mario Tirelli

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We propose an extension of the standard general equilibrium model with production and incomplete markets to situationsin which (i) private investors have limited information on the returns of specific assets, (ii) managers of firms have limited information on the preferences of individual shareholders. The extension is obtained by the assumption that firms are not traded directly but grouped into ‘sectorial’ funds. In our model the financial policy of the firm is not irrelevant. We establish the existence of equilibria and discuss the nature of the inefficiencies introduced by the presence of asymmetric information. We also illustrate the properties of the model in three simple examples.
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  • Jacques Drèze & Enrico Minelli & Mario Tirelli, 2008. "Production and financial policies under asymmetric information," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 35(2), pages 217-231, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joecth:v:35:y:2008:i:2:p:217-231
    DOI: 10.1007/s00199-007-0231-x
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    Keywords

    Decision-making under uncertainty; Asymmetric and private information; Incomplete markets; Equilibrium; D52; D81; D82;
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    JEL classification:

    • D52 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Incomplete Markets
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design

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