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This paper examines the sharing of risk under three different remedies for breach of contract. The risk considered …. By means of a numerical example, it is shown that use of the prevailing remedy for breach of contract -- the expectation …
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theory, and the article relates this conclusion to legal intervention in practice. Contractual holdup is considered for both … ship) are often socially beneficial. In these circumstances, the policy of controlling the contract price is preferable, as …
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We examine the desirability of granting "safe harbor" provisions to creditors of financial intermediaries in sale-and-repurchase (repo) contracts. Exemption from an automatic stay in bankruptcy enables financial intermediaries to raise greater liquidity and induces entry of intermediaries with...
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Using transaction data from a large non-fungible token (NFT) trading platform, this paper examines how the behavioral bias of selection-neglect interacts with extrapolative beliefs, accelerating the boom and delaying the crash in the recent NFT bubble. We show that the price-volume relationship...
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innovative output as measured by patents, controlling for endogeneity of contract form. The results are consistent with multi …
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We explore the implications of asset price volatility for the management of monetary policy. We show that it is desirable for central banks to focus on underlying inflationary pressures. Asset prices become relevant only to the extent they may signal potential inflationary or deflationary...
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This paper presents evidence on attitude changes among investors in the US stock market. Two basic attitudes are explored: bubble expectations and investor confidence. Semiannual time-series indicators of these attitudes are presented for US stock market institutional investors based on...
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bubbles in stock prices in a model in which stockholders have …rules out the existence of negative rational bubbles. The …
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This paper reports empirical tests for the existence of rational bubbles in stock prices. The analysis focuses on a … extraneous variables. The tests are based on the theoretical result that, if rational bubbles exist, time series obtained by …. Applications of the time domain tests to simulated nonstationary time series that would be implied by rational bubbles indicates …
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economically interesting, i.e., forward looking, any rational bubbles would be either explosive or implosive. Further arguments … the value of fiat money. These arguments rule out both positive and negative rational bubbles, except for the poissibility … of rational inflationary bubbles.This paper extends the theoretical analysis of rational bubbles in two ways. First, it …
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