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Disclosure Decision in an Entry Game With Costly Information Interpretation
Global Economy Journal
  • Eda Orhun, Zayed University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2019
Abstract

© 2019 World Scientific Publishing Company. This paper analyzes a firm's incentives to disclose private information related to its market situation when there is a potential competitor. However, I adopt a more realistic definition of transparency that has been mostly overlooked by the earlier literature. In a realistic situation, financial transparency does not imply that all the relevant information are automatically transmitted to the receiver of the signal but instead the available information needs to be understood. When the model is adjusted to incorporate this realistic definition of transparency, fully revealing equilibrium associated with the "Revelation Principle" does not exist anymore. It is observed that the model with interpretation costs of transparency yields both pooling and partially pooling equilibria.

Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
Disciplines
Keywords
  • "Revelation Principle",
  • costly information,
  • transparency,
  • Voluntary disclosure
Scopus ID
85064071356
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
No
https://doi.org/10.1142/S2194565919500052
Citation Information
Eda Orhun. "Disclosure Decision in an Entry Game With Costly Information Interpretation" Global Economy Journal Vol. 19 Iss. 1 (2019) ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/1553-5304" target="_blank">1553-5304</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/eda-orhun/2/