Theoretically and experimentally, we generalize the analysis of acquiringa company (Samuelson and Bazerman 1985) by allowing for competition ofboth, buyers and sellers. Naivety of both is related to the idea that higherprices exclude worse qualities. While competition of naive buyers...

In experimental bargaining with incomplete information, we vary the information distribution (symmetric and asymmetric), the direction of electronic prepaycommunication (no, one-way, and two way), and the electronic communication medium (email and video) Bargainig outcomes are influenced by the...

Kapital- und Opportunitätskosten sind Maße für die Verzinsung, die eine Investition mindestens erwirtschaften muß, um vorteilhaft zu sein. Die Opportunitätskosten sind anzusetzen, wenn der Investor das Projekt durch eigene Mittel finanziert, die er alternativ am Kapitalmarkt anlegen...

Risiko liegt begründet in der unvollständigen Information über zukünftige Zustände. Das Phänomen des Risikos durchdringt praktisch alle Bereiche des menschlichen Lebens. Risiko berührt eine Vielzahl ökonomischer, politischer, sozialer und technologischer Fragestellungen und...

This paper analyzes the expected life-time utility and the hedging demands in an exchange only, representative agent general equilibrium under incomplete information. We derive an expression for the investor’s expected life-time utility, and analyze his hedging demands for intertemporal changes...

This paper analyzes the term structure of interest rates in an exchange-only Lucas (1978) economy where consumers learn about a stochastic growth rate through observations of the endowment process and an external public signal. We allow for deluded consumers, who exaggerate the degree of...

We show in a theoretical model that the expected excess return on any asset depends on its covariance not only with the market portfolio, but also with changes in the representative agents estimate. We test our model by using GMM and compare it to the Fama-French model. The results suggest that...