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The existence of informationally efficient markets when individuals are rational

Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2004

A rational-expectations equilibrium with positive demand for financial information does exist under fully revealing asset price - contrary to a wide-held conjecture. Generalizing the common additive signal-return model with CARA utility to the family of distributions with moment generating...

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Analysis of monetary policy and financial stability : a new paradigm

Goodhart, Charles A. E.; Osorio, Carolina; Tsomocos, … - 2009

This paper introduces agent heterogeneity, liquidity, and endogenous default to a DSGE framework. Our model allows for … the economy. Due to liquidity and endogenous default, the transmission mechanism of shocks is well defined, and their …

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Hyperbolic discounting and positive optimal inflation

Graham, Liam; Snower, Dennis J. - 2011

The Friedman rule states that steady-state welfare is maximized when there is deflation at the real rate of interest. Recent work by Khan et al (2003) uses a richer model but still finds deflation optimal. In an otherwise standard new Keynesian model we show that, if households have hyperbolic...

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Risk management-driven policy rate gap

Caggiano, Giovanni; Castelnuovo, Efrem; Nodari, Gabriela - 2018

We employ real-time data available to the US monetary policy makers to estimate a Taylor rule augmented with a measure of financial uncertainty over the period 1969-2008. We find evidence in favor of a systematic response to financial uncertainty over and above that to expected inflation, output...

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Liquidity and international trade

Rodríguez López, Antonio - 2016

the international allocation of economic activity. Private assets’ liquidity properties - their usefulness as collateral … entry, production, aggregate productivity, and total market capitalization. In a closed economy, the liquidity market …, cross-country differences in financial development|as measured by the degree of liquidity of a country’s assets - generate …

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Credit risk in general equilibrium

Eichberger, Jürgen; Rheinberger, Klaus; Summer, Martin - 2014

This paper contributes to the literature on default in general equilibrium. Borrowing and lending takes place via a clearing house (bank) which monitors agents and enforces contracts. Our model develops a concept of bankruptcy equilibrium that is a direct generalization of the standard general...

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Asymmetric connectedness on the US stock market : bad and good volatility spillovers

Baruník, Jozef; Kočenda, Evžen; Vácha, Lukáš - 2015

This paper suggests how to quantify asymmetries in volatility spillovers that emerge due to bad and good volatility. Using data covering most liquid U.S. stocks in seven sectors, we provide ample evidence of the asymmetric connectedness of stocks at the disaggregate level. Moreover, the...

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Mental models of the stock market

Andre, Peter; Schirmer, Philipp; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2023

Investors' return expectations are pivotal in stock markets, but the reasoning behind these expectations remains a black box for economists. This paper sheds light on economic agents' mental models - their subjective understanding - of the stock market, drawing on surveys with the US general...

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Asset auctions, information, and liquidity

Vives, Xavier - 2010

A model is presented of a uniform price auction where bidders compete in demand schedules; the model allows for common and private values in the absence of exogenous noise. It is shown how private information yields more market power than the levels seen with full information. Results obtained...

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Imperfect financial markets as a commitment device for the government

Simon, Jenny - 2014

When the government lacks the ability to commit to a tax policy over time, agents' involvement in imperfect financial markets can be welfare improving. Agents borrow against their promised income in markets that are incomplete in the sense that claims cannot be resold without loss. Taking these...

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