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We study regulation of the auditing profession in a model where audit quality is unobservable and enforcing regulation is costly. The optimal audit standard falls short of the first-best audit quality, and is increasing in the riskiness of firms and in the amount of funding they seek. The model...
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A Bayesian supply function equilibrium is characterized in a market where firms have private information about their …, competitiveness is affected by the parameters of the information structure: supply functions are steeper with more noise in the … the collusive level. Furthermore, competition in supply functions aggregates the dispersed information of firms (the …
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In a standard financial market model with asymmetric information with a finite number N of risk-averse informed traders …
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We study a general static noisy rational expectations model, where investors have private information about asset … information, in relation to the usual public learning channel. When the private learning channel is strong (weak) in relation to … results enable a precise characterization of whether information acquisition decisions are strategic substitutes or …
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We investigate the dynamics of prices, information and expectations in a competitive, noisy, dynamic asset pricing … only if traders over- (under-) rely on public information with respect to optimal statistical weights. Both phenomena, in … uncertainty, over-reliance on public information obtains if noise trade displays low persistence. This defines a Keynesian" region …
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raise productivity by matching motivated workers to their preferred missions. Our focus on competition and incentives cuts …
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Until recently, most policy debates on pensions — especially in Europe — focused on public responsibilities and the difficulties that many publicly funded schemes have in meeting their obligations. However, recent events, not least declines in stock markets, have increased the salience of...
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This paper reviews some puzzling economic aspects of globalisation and argues that they cannot be satisfactorily addressed in perfectly or monopolistically competitive models. Drawing on recent work, a model of oligopoly in general equilibrium is sketched. The model ensures theoretical...
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I review previous approaches to modelling oligopoly in general equilibrium, and propose a new view which in principle overcomes their deficiencies: modelling firms as large in their own market but small in the economy as a whole. Implementing this approach requires a tractable specification of...
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I explore the interactions between comparative, competitive and absolute advantage in a two-country model of oligopoly in general equilibrium. Comparative advantage always determines the direction of trade, but both competitive and absolute advantage affect resource allocation, trade patterns...
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