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We investigate the informativeness of hygiene signals in online reviews, and their effect on consumer choice and restaurant hygiene. We first extract signals of hygiene from Yelp. Among all dimensions that regulators monitor through mandated restaurant inspections, we find that reviews are more...
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The seemingly never ending scandals in the world of finance with their damaging effects on value and human welfare (that continue unabated in spite of all the various efforts to curtail the behavior that results in those scandals) argues strongly for an addition to the current paradigm of...
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We test whether fixed exchange rate regimes are ever credible in emerging markets by analyzing the behavior of short-term domestic trade bills across countries during the classical gold standard period, the most widely used hard peg in modern financial history. We exploit the fact that global...
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distortion, e.g., underutilization of capacity and real exchange rate misalignment. However, while under imperfect credibility … by imperfect credibility …
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credibility of the crawling peg' and target zone ( maxiband') regimes governing the exchange rate. Since we do not impose an … one of the first to use options data from an emerging market, finds that target zone credibility was poor prior to …
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This paper analyzes the sustainability of fixed exchange rates by extending the Barro-Gordon framework to a fully dynamic context in which the level of a state variable (in this case debt) determines the payoffs available to the government at each point in time. The model yields the following...
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We argue that recent currency crises reflect clashes between fundamentals and pegged exchange rates, just as did crises in the past. We reject the view that crises reflect self-fulfilling prophecies that are not closely related to measured fundamentals. Doubts about the timing of a market attack...
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occur for some levels of reserves or debt, but not for others. Lastly, we argue that the imperfect credibility of Mexican …
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This paper develops a model for valuing options on a currency which is maintained within a band. The starting point of our model is the well known Krugman model for exchange-rate behavior within a target zone. Results from model runs provide insight into evidence reported by other authors of...
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Realignment expectations which measure exchange rate credibility are analyzed for European exchange rates, using daily … expectations and macroeconomic variables, although there are signs that lower inflation improves credibility. Statistically, many … movements to realignment expectations are common to ERM participants. There were few indications of poor ERM credibility before …
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