Enforcement with Costly Group Formation
Economics Bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 9, pp. 1-8, 2005
8 Pages Posted: 20 Oct 2010
Date Written: February 13, 2005
Abstract
The joint liability literature claims that positive assortative matching, or risk homogeneity, is always the first best solution. We examine this claim in presence of group formation costs and find that the assertion is not always true.
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