Household references are endogenous and markets themselves influence their formation. The introduction of electronic markets for goods and services and labor effect tastes, preferences, values, and interpersonal relationships in new and sometimes unpredictable ways. Further digital markets...

We examine similarities in the run-up to banking crises using two criteria for their predictability: i) the percentage of a specified number of years prior to a crisis correctly called; and ii) the percentage of true alarms of total alarms for a crisis. Using panel logit models we find that a...