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Financial fragility, bubbles and monetary policy
Illing, Gerhard - 2001
The paper models the links between financial fragility, asset markets and monetary policy. It is shown that central bank's concern about the cost of financial disruption generates an asymmetric response, thus contributing to the creation of an asset price bubble. In an economy with a highly...
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Exchange rate regime, financial market bubbles and long-term growth in China : lessons from Japan
Schnabl, Gunther - 2016
, speculative bubbles and post-bubble secular stagnation. To prevent a similar scenario for China capital controls, a tighter …
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Double-question survey measures for the analysis of financial bubbles and crashes
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Johnsson, Ida - 2016
This paper proposes a new double-question survey method that elicits information about how individuals.subjective belief valuations are compared and related to their price expectations. An individual respondent is presented with two sets of questions, one that asks about his/her belief regarding...
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Financial cycles, credit bubbles and stabilization policies
Corrado, Luisa; Schuler, Tobias - 2018
This paper analyzes the effects of several policy instruments to mitigate financial bubbles generated in the banking … policy instruments in counteracting financial bubbles. We find that an endogenous capital requirement reduces the impact of a …
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Strategic delegation in experimental markets
Huck, Steffen; Müller, Wieland; Norman, Hans-Theo - 2000
In this experiment, we analyze strategic delegation in a Cournot duopoly. Owners can choose among two different contracts which determine their managers' salaries. One contract simply gives managers incentives to maximize firm profits, while the second contract gives an additional sales bonus....
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Discrimination in hiring based on potential and realized fertility : evidence from a large-scale field experiment
Becker, Sascha O.; Fernandes, Ana; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2019
Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer's perspective, in their fertile age they are also at "risk" of pregnancy. Both factors potentially affect hiring practices of firms. We conduct a largescale correspondence test in...
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Good news is not a sufficient condition for motivated reasoning
Thaler, Michael - 2024
People often receive good news that makes them feel better about the world around them, or bad news that makes them feel worse about it. This paper studies how the valence of news affects belief updating, absent functional and ego-relevant factors. Using experiments with over 1,500 participants...
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Bubbles in hybrid markets : how expectations about algorithmic trading affect human trading
Farjam, Mike; Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2015
Bubbles are omnipresent in lab experiments with asset markets. Most of these experiments were conducted in environments … smaller bubbles if human traders expect algorithmic traders to be present. …
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Bitcoin and web search query dynamics : is the price driving the hype or is the hype driving the price?
Süssmuth, Bernd - 2019
Using a battery of timely multivariate time series techniques I study the Bitcoin cryptocurrency price series and web search queries with regard to their mutual predictability, Granger-causality and cause-effect delay structure. The Bitcoin is at first treated as a general currency, then as a...
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Another look at cryptocurrency bubbles
Gronwald, Marc - 2019
This paper deals with cryptocurrency bubbles. First, it points out that a number of recent papers on cryptocurrency … bubbles are awed due to an insufficient consideration of the fundamental value of cryptocurrencies. As even fiat money is said … to exhibit features of bubbles, the same applies to cryptocurrencies. Thus, any empirical investigation into either the …
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