Can Information Asymmetry Cause Stratification?
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- Berliant, Marcus & Kung, Fan-chin, 2010. "Can information asymmetry cause stratification?," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 40(4), pages 196-209, July.
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Keywords
Adverse Selection; Stratification;JEL classification:
- R13 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - General Equilibrium and Welfare Economic Analysis of Regional Economies
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2010-03-28 (Contract Theory & Applications)
- NEP-GEO-2010-03-28 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-LAB-2010-03-28 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-URE-2010-03-28 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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