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<title>Information Sharing in Common Agency: When is Transparency Good?</title>
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<description>When should principals dealing with a common agent share their individual performance measures about the agent's unobservable effort?</description>

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<category>Strategic Behavior and Market Design</category>

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<title>Surprised by the Parimutuel Odds?</title>
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<description>The favorite-longshot bias observed in parimutuel markets is consistent with the use of private information by bettors taking simultaneous positions. The ex post realization of a high market probability indicates favorable information about the occurrence of an outcome---and the opposite for longshots.</description>

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<category>Prediction Markets</category>

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