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Using the introduction of high-speed rail (HSR) as an exogenous shock to costs of information acquisition, we show that … reductions in information-acquisition costs lead to (i) a significant increase in information production, evidenced by a higher … information lead to these effects becoming more pronounced. Importantly, more information production is also associated with …
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Using the introduction of high-speed rail as exogenous shocks to costs of information acquisition, we show that … reductions in information-acquisition costs lead to a significant increase in information production and improvement in output … that information production represents the channel through which acquisition costs affect output quality. We corroborate …
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This paper shows that the framework proposed by Barberis and Huang (2009) to incorporate narrow framing and loss aversion into dynamic models of portfolio choice and asset pricing can be extended to also account for probability weighting and for a value function that is convex on losses and...
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We live in a ‘zero-risk society', characterized by a culture that is obsessed with controlling and removing any possible risks. Obviously, one of the fundamental objectives of any civilization is to improve the safety and security of its citizens. However, we should not let the cozy comfort...
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We evaluate how non-normality of asset returns and the temporal evolution of volatility and higher moments affects the conditional allocation of wealth. We show that if one neglects these aspects, as would be the case in a mean-variance allocation, a sighifiant cost would arise. The performance...
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information. Over time, agents are privately informed by bids and o ffers. Investors diff er with respect to information quality …, including initial information precision, and also in terms of market\connectivity," the expected frequency of their bilateral … trading opportunities. We characterize endogenous information acquisition and show how learning externalities aff ect …
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implementation of land-based property taxes. We compare hedonic, residual, and matching techniques for mass appraisal of residential … hedonic model is estimated and used to predict land leverage for all improved properties. We conclude that the matching …
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Humanity has been fascinated by the pursuit of fortune since time immemorial, and many successful outcomes benefit from strokes of luck. But success is subject to complexity, uncertainty, and change – and at times becoming increasingly unequally distributed. This leads to tension and confusion...
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Mutual funds are mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to disclose information on their investment … that regular content-based updates of the disclosed risks provide relevant information in predicting future fund … performance. Investors, however, do not react to this new information but rather to the content's informativeness. Finally, using …
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We study optimal securitization of defaultable assets in a continuous time setting. A financial intermediary can create a portfolio of defaultable assets and then sell it to outside investors. The default risk of the assets in the portfolio is determined by the unobservable costly effort exerted...
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