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Stephen Morris

- Verified email at mit.edu - Cited by 26747

Stephen Morris

- Verified email at medschl.cam.ac.uk - Cited by 19531

Stephen Morris

- Verified email at dpi.nsw.gov.au - Cited by 7045

Political correctness

S Morris - Journal of political Economy, 2001 - journals.uchicago.edu
An informed advisor wishes to convey her valuable information to an uninformed decision
maker with identical preferences. Thus she has a current incentive to truthfully reveal her …

Contagion

S Morris - The Review of Economic Studies, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Each player in an infinite population interacts strategically with a finite subset of that population.
Suppose each player's binary choice in each period is a best response to the population …

Social value of public information

S Morris, HS Shin - american economic review, 2002 - aeaweb.org
What are the welfare effects of enhanced dissemination of public information through the media
and disclosures by market participants with high public visibility? We examine the impact …

On the form of transfers to special interests

S Coate, S Morris - Journal of political Economy, 1995 - journals.uchicago.edu
An important question in political economy concerns the form of transfers to special interests.
The Chicago view is that political competition leads politicians to make such transfers …

Global games: Theory and applications

S Morris, HS Shin - 2001 - papers.ssrn.com
Global games are games of incomplete information whose type space is determined by the
players each observing a noisy signal of the underlying state. With strategic …

[HTML][HTML] MRI-targeted or standard biopsy for prostate-cancer diagnosis

…, C Allen, F Giganti, A Freeman, S Morris… - … England Journal of …, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with or without targeted
biopsy, is an alternative to standard transrectal ultrasonography–guided biopsy for prostate-…

The common prior assumption in economic theory

S Morris - Economics & Philosophy, 1995 - cambridge.org
Why is (it that) common priors are implicit or explicit in the vast majority of the differential
information literature in economics and game theory? Why has the economic community been …

The limits of price discrimination

D Bergemann, B Brooks, S Morris - American Economic Review, 2015 - aeaweb.org
We analyze the welfare consequences of a monopolist having additional information about
consumers' tastes, beyond the prior distribution; the additional information can be used to …

Effects of biochar from slow pyrolysis of papermill waste on agronomic performance and soil fertility

L Van Zwieten, S Kimber, S Morris, KY Chan, A Downie… - Plant and soil, 2010 - Springer
The amendment of two agricultural soils with two biochars derived from the slow pyrolysis of
papermill waste was assessed in a glasshouse study. Characterisation of both biochars …

Unique equilibrium in a model of self-fulfilling currency attacks

S Morris, HS Shin - American Economic Review, 1998 - JSTOR
Even though self-fulfilling currency attacks lead to multiple equilibria when fundamentals are
common knowledge, we demonstrate the uniqueness of equilibrium when speculators face …