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for why such an arrangement is typically chosen. I use a deterministic matching model with a continuum of agents where …
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aggregation of private information in financial markets. We analyze a financial market à la Glosten and Milgrom, in which informed …, eventually, all informed traders decide not to trade, independently of their private information, i.e., an informational cascade … when the theory suggests they should. Nevertheless, the ability of the price to aggregate private information is not …
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We introduce professional financial advice in households’ choice to hold risky financial assets. Consistent with the predictions from a formal model, we present evidence that households’ trust in financial advice only matters when their perceived own financial capability is low. Instead, for...
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In this paper we discuss the role of the cross-sectional heterogeneity of beliefs in the context of understanding and assessing macroeconomic vulnerability. Emphasis lies on the potential of changing levels of disagreement in expectations to influence the propensity of the economy to switch...
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agents cannot process all available information, but they can choose which exact pieces of information to attend to. Several … important results in economics have been built around imperfect information. Nowadays, many more forms of information than ever … before are available due to new technologies, and yet we are able to digest little of it. Which form of imperfect information …
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We study supervisory interventions in cross-border banks under different institutional architectures in a model in which a bank may provide voluntary support to an impaired subsidiary using resources from a healthy subsidiary. While supranational architecture permits voluntary support, national...
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aggregation of private information in financial markets. We analyze a financial market agrave; la Glosten and Milgrom, in which … that, eventually, all informed traders decide not to trade, independently of their private information, i.e., an … cascades occur when the theory suggests they should. Nevertheless, the ability of the price to aggregate private information is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777573
We introduce professional financial advice in households' choice to hold risky financial assets. Consistent with the predictions from a formal model, we present evidence that households' trust in financial advice only matters when their perceived own financial capability is low. Instead, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130159
This paper investigates the relationship between the size of an unfunded public pension system and economic growth in an overlapping generation economy, in which altruistic parents finance the education of their children and leave bequests. Unlike the existing literature, we model...
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We consider a model with frictional unemployment and staggered wage bargaining where hours worked are negotiated every period. The workers' bargaining power in the hours negotiation affects both unemployment volatility and inflation persistence. The closer to zero this parameter, (i) the more...
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