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How should possible policy reforms and projects be assessed when prices give misleading signals? Revenues and costs at market prices then give distorted measures of social gains and losses and our appraisal should use social opportunity costs, or correctly defined, shadow prices. We show how...
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An empirical study that shows that countries’ reserve holdings are sensitive to the rates at which they can borrow on international financial markets, this analysis confirms the view that holding major currencies as reserve assets has costs that are frequently unrecognized. Between 1978-82 for...
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We provide a systematic analysis of the properties of individual returns to wealth using twelve years of population … of wealth between safe and risky assets: returns are heterogeneous even within asset classes. Third, returns are … positively correlated with wealth: moving from the 10th to the 90th percentile of the financial wealth distribution increases the …
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