Many regulators utilize self-reporting, that is, wrongdoers reporting their own crimes to the authority, enforce regulations in a variety of market contexts. This paper studies effectiveness self-reporting within context an oligopoly. We identify two important consequences implementing (relative no-reporting) for welfare-maximizing regulator. First, if regulator can control only audit probabili...

a r t i c l e i n f o We study how agents decide between working for firms with profit sharing and firms in which pay is based on individual productivity. Profit sharing has the disadvantages of free riding and adverse selection. The benefit of profit sharing is that it makes easier for agents to signal their productivity. We show that in equilibrium skilled agents are more likely to belong to ...

I find a topological arrangement of assets traded in a phonographic market which has associated a meaningful economic taxonomy. I continue using the Minimal Spanning Tree and the Life-time Of Correlations between assets, but now outside the stock markets. This is the first attempt to use these methods on phonographic market where we have artists instead of stocks. The value of an artist is defi...

How do market structure and the characteristics of goods affect the incentives to create new goods (to innovate) and to copy them (to imitate).In this paper we consider an economy in which goods differ according to their production technology, which determines the market structure, and according to the fraction of R&D (think knowledge or information) that it takes to create them. After innovati...