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Ongoing international financial integration has greatly increased foreign asset holdings across countries, enhancing … claims to firm profits in a production economy. For a given level of international financial integration (measured by the … goods, and the persistence of shocks. Finally, moving from less to more international financial integration, risk sharing …

capital markets have become more integrated. In this paper, I ask what this integration and its resulting higher correlation …

of financial integration or interrelatedness, asking how Asia compares with Europe and Latin America and with the base … head and shoulders above other regions in terms of financial integration. More interesting is that Asia already seems to …

This paper assesses different organizational forms in terms of their ability to generate information about investment … likely to be attractive when information about individual projects is soft' and cannot be credibly transmitted. Moreover …, holding fixed firm size, soft information also favors flatter organizations with fewer layers of management. In contrast …

We introduce information frictions into a tractable quantitative multi-country multi-sector model with global value …' information sets with new quarterly data containing the frequencies of country-industry-specific economic news reports by 11 … information frictions are amplified by the global production network. These information frictions appear as correlated labor …

resistant to retractions (the revoking of earlier information). Our experimental design allows us to identify updating from … retractions - unlearning - and to compare it with updating from equivalent new information - learning. Across different kinds of … from equivalent new information. While we document a number of well-known biases in belief updating in our data, our …