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improved risk management during the global financial crisis, the role of banking regulation in an economy under credit risk and …-market noise, stress testing correlation matrices for risk management, whether bank relationship matters for corporate risk taking …, with evidence from listed firms in Taiwan, pricing options on stocks denominated in different currencies, with theory and …
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Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...
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a revival of interest in the effect of risk on economic growth. We quantify both ex ante and ex post effects of risk … estimate the model in the structural form suggested by theory. The methodology is applied to micro data from a remarkable long …-running panel data set for rural households in Zimbabwe. We find that risk substantially reduces growth: in the ergodic distribution …
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risk of thestrategies increases proportionally. Second, we test whether the strategies can be implementedsuccessfully in …, we examine several popularexplanations for the excess returns. We find no evidence of higher market risk or lower …
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This paper studies the relationship between three key elements of the marketing mix, namely, price, product, and promotion, in a model where a seller employs informative advertising to launch a new product. We propose a fairly general advertising technology for the study of three promotional...
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This paper shows how a firm can use non-targeted advertising to exploit consumers' desire for social status. A monopolist sells multiple varieties of a good to consumers who each care about what others believe about his wealth. Advertising allows consumers both to buy different varieties and to...
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The search literature assumes that consumers know which firms sell products they are looking for, but are unaware of the particular variety and the prices at which each firm sells. In this paper, we consider the situation where consumers are uncertain whether a firm carries the product at all by...
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We model the idea that when consumers search for products, they first visit the firm whose advertising is more salient. The gains a firm derives from being visited early increase in search costs, so equilibrium advertising increases as search costs rise. This may result in lower firm profits...
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We consider a duopoly in a homogenous goods market where part of the consumers are ex ante uninformed about prices. Information can come through two different channels: advertising and sequential consumer search. We arrive at the following results. First, there is no monotone relationship...
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expected growth rate of the economy and when thegovernment has a lifetime perspective of the risk exposure. The paper also …
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