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asset market bubbles occur in all sessions, but global markets had significantly more extreme and longer duration valuation … bubbles. Additionally, subjects at the most suboptimal times-of-day held significantly more asset shares in their portfolios …
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We study the macroeconomic effects of rational asset bubbles in an overlapping-generations economy where asset trading … are large, the private gains associated with trading asset bubbles may lead too many workers to become speculators …, thereby causing rational bubbles to lose their efficiency properties. Moreover, if speculation can be carried out by skilled …
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is as great as when training is absent. -- asset market experiment ; price bubbles ; common knowledge of rationality …
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Asset market bubbles and crashes are a major source of economic instability and inefficiency. Sometimes ascribed to …
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indicative of speculation and do not always crash back. -- league tables ; price bubbles ; managed funds markets ; tournament …
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How does small-firm employment respond to exogenous labor productivity risk? We find that this depends on the capitalization of firms' local banks. The evidence comes from firms offering (quasi-) fixed employment to workers whose productivity depends on the weather. Weather risk reduces this...
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norm, but it is likely to be punctuated with episodes of bubbles and crashes. The paper also considers if market …
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An important issue in the analysis of cross-sectional dependence which has received renewed interest in the past few years is the need for a better understanding of the extent and nature of such cross dependencies. In this paper we focus on measures of cross-sectional dependence and how such...
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By using a nonlinear VAR model, we investigate whether the response of the US stock and housing markets to uncertainty shocks depends on financial conditions. Our model allows us to change the response of the US financial markets to volatility shocks in periods of normal and financial distress....
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Bubbles are recurrent events, which contribute to both macroeconomic and employment volatility. We introduce stochastic … bubbles in the standard search-and matching model of the labor market. The economy alternates between latent and bubbly states …, each being associated with a distinct solution for the market value of firms (respectively, stable or explosive). Bubbles …
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