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Asymmetric Information

Asymmetric Information is an economic condition in which one party in a transaction possesses more or better information than the other, thereby creating an imbalance in the decision-making environment that can lead to inefficient outcomes.

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The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism

George A. Akerlof · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1970 · 22.6K citations

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On Information and Sufficiency

S. Kullback, R. A. Leibler · The Annals of Mathematical Statistics · 1951 · 20K citations · Full text

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Job Market Signaling

Michael Spence · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1973 · 15.2K citations

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Credit Rationing in Markets with Imperfect Information

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Andrew Weiss · American Economic Review · 1981 · 12.9K citations · Full text

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Information and Consumer Behavior

Phillip Nelson · Journal of Political Economy · 1970 · 5.7K citations

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  1. JE
    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Columbia University, United States

    50 publications · 35.5K citations

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  2. MO
    Maureen O’Hara

    Cornell University, United States

    39 publications · 14.9K citations

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  3. RE
    Robert E. Verrecchia

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    38 publications · 19.6K citations

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  4. SV
    Siva Viswanathan

    Duke University, United States

    25 publications · 3.8K citations

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  5. DE
    David Easley

    Cornell University, United States

    25 publications · 12.8K citations

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  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    106 h-index

    370 publications

    77.7K citations

  2. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    101 h-index

    395 publications

    68.9K citations

  3. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    94 h-index

    286 publications

    51.2K citations

  4. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    92 h-index

    606 publications

    58.3K citations

  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    89 h-index

    318 publications

    46.8K citations

  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    85 h-index

    281 publications

    45K citations

  7. New York University

    New York, United States

    81 h-index

    312 publications

    36.6K citations

  8. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    79 h-index

    289 publications

    56.8K citations

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  1. The Journal of Finance

    328 publications · 111.1K citations

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  2. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 1.9K publications · 79.5K citations

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  3. American Economic Review

    248 publications · 67.8K citations

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  4. Econometrica

    183 publications · 48.5K citations

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  5. Review of Financial Studies

    187 publications · 37.3K citations

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