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This paper focuses on two separate problems. The first is that frequently, the most profitable use of funds involves long-term investments, which militiates for long-term debt contracts. The second problem is to monitor the investor's use of funds, as exemplified by the U.S. S&L saga, and we...
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We analyze the individual and macroeconomic impacts of heterogeneous expectations and action rules within an agent-based model populated by heterogeneous, interacting firms. Agents have to cope with a complex evolving economy characterized by deep uncertainty resulting from technical change,...
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present a dynamic disequilibrium theory with randomness that is based on the premise that a better way to understand deep … coherent theory of how it is attained, the incompleteness of markets and the non-stationarity of the stochastic processes … describing the economy. We analyze the policy implications of this alternative theory, which typically differ markedly from those …
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This paper reviews and puts into perspective recent work reassessing the first and second Fundamental Theorems of Welfare Economics. It assesses the implications of the Greenwald-Stiglitz theorem establishing the (constrained) Pareto inefficiency of market economies with imperfect information...
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The privatization of large state-owned enterprises is one of the most radical policy developments of the last quarter century. Right-wing governments have privatized in an effort to decrease the size of government, while left-wing governments have privatized either to compensate for the failures...
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their informational consequences may have lowered welfare. Surveying both theory and applications, we review the main …
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