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In 2013, Stiftung Warentest tested hazelnut chocolate for their leading magazine, called Test. Stiftung Warentest is one of the most important consumer organizations in Germany. Ritter Sport is a high-quality producer of chocolate in Germany. Their hazelnut chocolate did not pass the test. It...
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In an overlapping generations maximization framework with consumers, whose information on uncertain future income …
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This paper shows that the explanation of the decline in the volatility of GDP growth since the mid-eighties is not the decline in the volatility of exogenous shocks but rather a change in their propagation mechanism.
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strongly to predictable marginal cost changes, as expected from the Mankiw and Reis (2002) Sticky Information Model. We �nd …
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We study credible information transmission by a benevolent Central Bank. We consider two possibilities: direct … revelation through an announcement, versus indirect information transmission through monetary policy. These two ways of … transmitting information have very different consequences. Since the objectives of the Central Bank and those of individual …
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In this paper we study the impact of shocks to global risk and global risk aversion (such as Lehman) as well as shocks with a more idiosyncratic nature (such as the euro debt crisis) on cross border portfolio flows, taking the perspective of foreign investors. We find robust evidence of...
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hyperlinks between countries – as a novel proxy for cross-border information flows and cultural proximity more generally. Our … than for debt investment, highlighting the larger information sensitivity of equity investments, and is largest for …-used proxies for information asymmetries and cultural proximity. …
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models containing news shocks. This paper shows how to formally evaluate the information content of observed variables with …
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information (data collection and processing) and communication (relationships and distribution). Both follow historic trends … towards an increased use of hard information and less inperson interaction, which are accelerating rapidly. We point to more …
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's use of mass communication media to obtain information about the ECB. We employ a unique representative public opinion … of knowing about monetary policy, but to take the gender-specific differences into account in doing so. …
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