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标题：Information Asymmetry and Tie-in Transactions
其他标题：Information Asymmetry and Tie-in Transactions
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作者：Jacek Prokop ; Ewa Baranowska-Prokop
期刊名称：Gospodarka Narodowa
印刷版ISSN：2300-5238
出版年度：2006
卷号：209
期号：7-8
页码：9-25
DOI：10.33119/GN/101439
出版社：Warsaw School of Economics
摘要：The article sets out to determine if tie-in transactions can be a more favorable form of buying capital goods for enterprises than ordinary market transactions in the event of an information asymmetry. The authors present a model situation in which an enterprise from a less developed country decides to buy technology from a company based in a highly developed country. The quality of the technology is unknown to the buyer, who has two forms of transactions to choose from: a market transaction or a tie-in. The authors prove that in the event of considerable uncertainty about the quality of the technology involved, tie-ins may be the preferred form of trade. Such transactions play the role of specific insurance in case the technology purchased proves to be of substandard quality. Tie-in transactions are a reliable signal of the quality of capital goods if there is an information asymmetry between the seller and the buyer. They represent a rational response to conditions limiting market exchange.