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they must deliver the asset they borrowed. That asset enjoys greater liquidity, measured by search times, and a higher … establish long positions in a search spot market, or short positions by first borrowing an asset in a search repo market. We … show that short-sellers can endogenously concentrate in one asset because of search externalities and the constraint that …
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We provide the impact on asset prices of search-and-bargaining frictions in over-the-counter markets. Under certain … shocks cause prices to jump, and then 'recover' over time, with a time signature that is exaggerated by search frictions. We …
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This paper models the causes of the 2008 financial crisis together with its manifestations, using a Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model. Our analysis is conducted on a cross-section of 85 countries; we focus on international linkages that may have allowed the crisis to spread across...
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This Paper develops a simple new methodology to test for asset integration and applies it within and between American … stock markets. Our technique is tightly based on a general intertemporal asset-pricing model, and relies on estimating and …
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This paper analyses the causes and consequences of offshore financial centers (OFCs). Since OFCs are likely to be tax havens and money launderers, they encourage bad behaviour in source countries. Nevertheless, OFCs may also have unintended positive consequences for their neighbours, since they...
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substitution or ‘EMRS’, using only data on asset prices and returns. Our empirical strategy is general, and allows the EMRS to vary … with considerable precision and time-series volatility. We then use these estimates to test for asset integration, both …
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services, such as childcare. This study empirically investigates how perceived search costs and parental life satisfaction …
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-sharing due to search frictions implies that ‘good’ jobs which have higher creation costs must pay higher wages. This wage …
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Empirical evidence suggests that most advertisements contain little direct information. Many do not mention prices. We analyse a monopoly firm’s choice of advertising content and the information disclosed to consumers. The firm advertises only product information, price information, or both;...
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be attributed to unobserved components in those characteristics. An assignment model with search frictions provides a …. The impact of search frictions on wages is large. Our results relate to the literature on industry wage differentials, on … structural identification in hedonic models, and on wage posting versus Nash bargaining in search models. …
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