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Banks and market liquidity
Arping, Stefan - 2015
I study a model of market-liquidity provision by levered intermediaries that, besides operating trading desks, run … deposit-taking franchises. Levered intermediaries’ heightened incentive to absorb risk helps to counteract liquidity …. However, liquidity provision may also overshoot, leading to unhealthy price bubbles and causing asset origination to become …
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Bubble formation and (in)efficient markets in learning-to-forecast and -optimise experiments
Te, Bao; Hommes, Cars H.; Makarewicz, Tomasz - 2015
This experiment compares the price dynamics and bubble formation in an asset market with a price adjustment rule in three treatments where subjects (1) submit a price forecast only, (2) choose quantity to buy/sell and (3) perform both tasks. We find deviation of the market price from the...
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Bubbles, crashes and information contagion in large-group asset market experiments
Hommes, Cars H.; Kopányi-Peuker, Anita; Sonnemans, Joep - 2019
We experimentally investigate how price expectations are formed in a large asset market where subjects' only task is to forecast the future price of a risky asset. The realized prices depend on these expectations. We observe small (6 participants) and large markets (about 100 participants). In...
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Why do oaths work? : image concerns and credibility in promise keeping
Kingsuwankul, Sorravich; Tergiman, Chloe; Villeval, … - 2023
We use a laboratory experiment to understand the channels through which honesty oaths can affect behavior and credibility. Using a game with asymmetric information in a financial market setting that captures some important features of advisor-investor interactions, we manipulate the common...
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Policy makers, advisors, and reputation
Wrasai, Phongthorn; Swank, Otto H. - 2004
When hiring an adviser (he), a policy maker (she) often faces the problem that she has incomplete information about his preferences. Some advisers are good, in the sense that their preferences are closely aligned to the policy maker's preferences, and some advisers are bad. Recently, some...
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A simple model of self-assessments
Dominguez-Martinez, Silvia; Swank, Otto H. - 2006
We develop a simple model that describes individuals’ self-assessments oftheir abilities. We assume that individuals learn about their abilities from appraisalsof others and experience. Our model predicts that if communicationis imperfect, then (i) appraisals of others tend to be too positive,...
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The self-perception theory vs. a dynamic learning model
Swank, Otto H. - 2006
motivation may undermine intrinsic motivation. The self-perception (SP) theory developed by Bem (1972) explains this finding. The … crux of this theory is that people remember their past decisions and the extrinsic rewards they received, but they do not … recall their intrinsic motives. In this paper I show that the SP theory can be modeled as a variant of a conventional dynamic …
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Credit protection and lending relationships
Arping, Stefan - 2012
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Banking panics and liquidity in a monetary economy
Matsuoka, Tarishi; Watanabe, Makoto - 2017
This paper studies banks' liquidity provision in the Lagos and Wright model of monetary exchanges. With aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011722659
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Aggregate risk and efficiency of mutual funds
Kucinskas, Simas - 2015
: undiversifiable interest rate risk and shocks to aggregate liquidity demand. Mutual funds are inefficient when the economy faces … undiversifiable interest rate risk. However, if only aggregate liquidity demand is stochastic, mutual funds can implement the social … optimum even when liquidity demand is not directly observed. …
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