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A Critique of the Literature on the US Financial Debt Crisis

Stein, Jerome L. - CESifo - 2010

A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price bubble led to the financial crisis that started in 2007. There is a large empirical literature concerning the relation between asset price bubbles and financial crises. I evaluate...

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Application of Stochastic Optimal Control to Financial Market Debt Crises

Stein, Jerome L. - CESifo - 2009

This interdisciplinary paper explains how mathematical techniques of stochastic optimal control can be applied to the recent subprime mortgage crisis. Why did the financial markets fail to anticipate the recent debt crisis, despite the large literature in mathematical finance concerning optimal...

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No-Trade in the Laboratory

Angrisani, Marco; Guarino, Antonio; Huck, Steffen; … - CESifo - 2008

We test the no-trade theorem in a laboratory financial market where subjects can trade an asset whose value is unknown. Subjects receive clues on the asset value and then set a bid and an ask at which they are willing to buy or to sell from the other participants. In treatments with no gains...

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Predictability of Asset Returns and the Efficient Market Hypothesis

Pesaran, M. Hashem - CESifo - 2010

This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different frequencies (daily, weekly and monthly), and considers the evidence on return predictability, risk...

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Dynamic Trading and Asset Prices: Keynes vs. Hayek

Cespa, Giovanni; Vives, Xavier - CESifo - 2009

We investigate the dynamics of prices, information and expectations in a competitive, noisy, dynamic asset pricing equilibrium model with long-term investors. We argue that the fact that prices can score worse or better than consensus opinion in predicting the fundamentals is a product of...

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Expectations, Liquidity, and Short-term Trading

Cespa, Giovanni; Vives, Xavier - CESifo - 2011

We consider a two-period market with persistent liquidity trading and risk averse privately informed investors who have a one period horizon. With persistence, prices reflect average expectations about fundamentals and liquidity trading. Informed investors engage in “retrospective” learning...

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Monetary Policy with Diverse Private Expectations

Kurz, Mordecai; Motolese, Maurizio; Piccillo, Giulia; … - CESifo - 2015

We study the impact of diverse beliefs on conduct of monetary policy. We use a New Keynesian Model solved with a quadratic approximation. Aggregation renders the belief distribution an aggregate state variable. Diverse expectations change standard results about a smooth trade-off between...

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Neutral Taxation of Shareholder Income? Corporate Responses to an Announced Dividend Tax

Alstadsæter, Annette; Fjaerli, Erik - CESifo - 2009

tax rates on individual dividend income from zero to 28 percent. We document strong timing effects on dividend payout on a …

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Who Participates in Tax Avoidance?

Alstadsæter, Annette; Jacob, Martin - CESifo - 2013

This paper analyzes the sources of heterogeneity in legal tax avoidance strategies across individuals. Three conditions are required for a taxpayer to participate in tax avoidance: incentive, access, and awareness. Using rich Swedish administrative panel data with a unique link between corporate...

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Dividend Taxation and the Cost of New Share Issues

Lindhe, Tobias; Södersten, Jan - CESifo - 2014

This paper examines how the effects of dividend taxation on the cost of new equity funds depend on whether or not … shareholders can recover their original equity injections without being subject to the dividend tax. We point out the alternative … that the shareholders cannot recover their original equity injections without being subject to the dividend tax …

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