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It is believed that privatizations substantially contributed to boost stock markets through the 1980s and 1990s. However, trough which channels did that materialize? We test whether privatizations improving households' acquaintance with the risk and return characteristics of stocks through the...
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This survey paper examines various information insufficiencies in biodiversity conservation and their impact of … information, and 4) monitoring problem. The consequences of these four types of information insufficiencies on the choice of …
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overcoming asymmetric information problems at no cost. This paper characterizes efficient protocols assuming that: (i) some …
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primary issuance is restricted to government securities dealers, Order-flow" information is a key source of private … information for these security dealers. Order-flow information is revealed to a security dealer through his interactions with …
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imperfect information, like a credit score, may increase inefficiency. Crucially, a small externality on financiers exacerbates …
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International evidence on the accrual anomaly is sparse and conflicting. Testing for accrual mispricing in 28 equity markets, we provide statistical evidence for anomalous returns in some countries. However, we question whether this result might have occurred by chance alone and that it might...
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We consider a multi-period rational expectations model in which risk-averse investors differ in their information on … expected utility than outsiders. Yet, information acquisition by one investor exerts a negative externality on other investors …. Thus, investors' average welfare is maximal when access to price information is rationed. We show that a market for price …
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investigate their capital market implications in the United States by looking at price and trade reactions, information asymmetry … information in stress tests, especially at times of financial distress. Moreover, public disclosure seem to help reduce … private incentives to generate information or to have led to distorted incentives. …
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expansions and recessions. We find that the information content of macroeconomic announcements is mostimportant when it contains …
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