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and 30% to education signaling workers' ability …
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A central result in the theory of adverse selection in asset markets is that informed sellers can signal quality and … obtain higher prices by delaying trade. This paper provides some of the first evidence of a signaling mechanism through trade …
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We use a new firm-level dataset to examine the efficiency of investment in emerging economies. In the three-year period following stock market liberalizations, the growth rate of the typical firm's capital stock exceeds its pre-liberalization mean by an average of 5.4 percentage points....
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We study how signaling affects equilibrium outcomes and welfare in an online credit market using detailed data on loan … through the reserve interest rate. Comparing a market with and without signaling relative to the benchmark with no asymmetric … signaling. We also estimate backward-bending supply curves for some markets, consistent with the prediction of Stiglitz & Weiss …
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This lecture outlines an asymmetric information theory of financial instability which describes the fundamental forces …
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By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer new insights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky assets, or "home bias", from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribes the "bias" to...
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We examine how liquidity and asset prices are affected by the following market imperfections: asymmetric information, participation costs, transaction costs, leverage constraints, non-competitive behavior and search. Our model has three periods: agents are identical in the first, become...
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The consequences of information differences across investors in capital markets are still much debated. This paper examines the relation between information differences across investors and the cost of capital, and makes three points. First, in models of perfect competition, information...
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) is observed to be a predominant form of capital flows to emerging economies, especially when they are liquidity-constrained internationally during a global financial crisis. The financial aspects of FDI are the focus of the paper. We analyze the problem of...
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In recent years, there has been a large literature on how stock exchange specialists set prices when there are investors who know more about the stock than they do. An important assumption in this literature is that there are *liquidity traders* who are equally likely to buy or sell for...
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