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We study the relationship between the risk of default and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors using Supervised Machine Learning (SML) techniques on a cross-section of European listed companies. Our proxy for credit risk is the z-score originally proposed by Altman (1968). We...
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We examine businesses' price-setting practices via open-ended interviews and in a quantitative survey module with business contacts from the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, Cleveland, and New York in December 2022 and January 2023. Businesses indicated that their prices were strongly...
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aimed at reducing congestion can harm the side of the market that benefits from congestion. …
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tested in a repeated market experiment with symmetric and asymmetric information. The results support the conjecture: people …
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-income markets. We analyze a new data set: the eSpeed (Cantor Fitzgerald) electronic Treasury network. We contrast the market … microstructure of eSpeed with the tradi- tional voice assisted networks that report through GovPX. The electronic market (eSpeed) has … greater volume, smaller spreads and a lower estimated impact of a trade than the voice market (GovPX). …
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interquartile range of the price distribution in a market. These results suggest that markups move procyclically in the airline …
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explicitly, on a market equilibrium framework or provide no framework at all. This paper offers a working alternative that relies …, not on a market equilibrium framework, but rather on a stock-flow equilibrium framework. In doing so, we lay out a … properly general theory of pricing that can be applied to any market - whether financial, real, or a real market that has been …
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We use micro data on product prices linked to information on the firms that set them to test for selection effects (state dependence) in micro-level producer pricing. In contrast to using synthetic data from a canonical menu-cost model, we find very weak, if any, micro-level selection effects...
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This paper examines bidding behavior in a setting where post-bid-letting project modifications occur. These modifications change both the costs and payouts to the winning contractor, making the contract incomplete. Recent empirical research shows that bidders incorporate the likelihood of such...
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Through a series of decision tasks involving colored cards, we provide separate measures of Bayesian updating and non-probabilistic reasoning skills. We apply these measures to (and are the first to study) a common-value Dutch auction. This format is more salient than the strategically...
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