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Multidimensional Private Information, Market Structure and Insurance Markets

Fang, Hanming - 2016

A large empirical literature found that the correlation between insurance purchase and ex post realization of risk is often statistically insignificant or negative. This is inconsistent with the predictions from the classic models of insurance a la Akerlof (1970), Pauly (1974) and Rothschild and...

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High-Priced Drugs in Medicare Part D : Diagnosis and Potential Prescription

Frank, Richard G. - 2018

Drug pricing in the U.S. is a persistently vexing policy problem. While there is agreement among many policy analysts that supra competitive prices are necessary to promote innovation; significant disagreements arise over how much pricing discretion prescription drug manufacturers should be...

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Investor Attention : Overconfidence and Category Learning

Peng, Lin - 2005

Motivated by psychological evidence that attention is a scarce cognitive resource, we model investors' attention allocation in learning and study the effects of this on asset-price dynamics. We show that limited investor attention leads to ``category-learning" behavior, i.e., investors tend to...

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Do Asset Prices Reflect Fundamentals? Freshly Squeezed Evidence from the OJ Market

Boudoukh, Jacob - 2003

fundamentals, focusing primarily on temperature. We show that when theory clearly identifies the fundamental, i.e., at temperatures …-thirds of the entire winter return variability occurs on these days. Moreover, when theory suggests no such relation, i.e., at … is good news for the theory and for market efficiency, not bad news. In terms of residual FCOJ return volatility, we also …

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Equity market liberalizations as country IPOs

Martell, Rodolfo - 2003

Equity market liberalizations are like IPOs, but they are IPOs of a country's stock market rather than of individual firms. Both are endogenous events whose benefits are limited by poor investor protection, agency costs, and information asymmetries. As for stock prices following an IPO, there...

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Impediments to Financial Trade : Theory and Applications

Gârleanu, Nicolae - 2016

We propose a tractable model of an informationally inefficient market featuring non-revealing prices, no noise traders, and general assumptions on preferences and payoff distributions. We show the equivalence between our model and a substantially simpler model whereby investors face...

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The Power of Forward Guidance Revisited

McKay, Alisdair - 2015

In recent years, central banks have increasingly turned to "forward guidance" as a central tool of monetary policy, especially as interest rates around the world have hit the zero lower bound. Standard monetary models imply that far future forward guidance is extremely powerful: promises about...

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Premium Transparency in the Medicare Advantage Market : Implications for Premiums, Benefits, and Efficiency

Stockley, Karen - 2014

In the Medicare Advantage (MA) market, private health insurers compete to offer plans with the most attractive premium and benefit package. Medicare provides a subsidy, based on a "benchmark payment rate", for each Medicare beneficiary a plan enrolls. We investigate how this subsidy, the primary...

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Private Information and Sunspots in Sequential Asset Markets

Benhabib, Jess - 2014

We study a model where some agents have private information about risky asset returns and trade to obtain capital gains, while others acquire the risky asset and hold it to maturity, forming expectations of returns based on market prices. We show that under such a structure, in addition to fully...

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Optimal Trading Ratios for Pollution Permit Markets

Holland, Stephen - 2014

We analyze a novel method for improving the efficiency of pollution permit markets by optimizing the way in which emissions are exchanged through trade. Under full-information, it is optimal for emissions to exchange according to the ratio of marginal damages. However, under a canonical model...

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