Since the introduction of a statutory‐backed continuous disclosure regime (CDR) in 1994, regulatory reforms have significantly increased litigation risk in Australia for failure to disclose material information or for false and misleading disclosure. However, there is almost no empirical...

This paper reports the results of experimental asset markets designed to investigate how the public disclosure of uncertain information affects market and individual outcomes. In some markets, no information is released as trading starts, and in others, an imperfect pre-announcement is...

This dissertation consists of three essays linking the business models of rating agencies to the rating decisions these agencies make as market intermediaries between buyers and sellers.The first study examines the link between a rating agency‟s primary revenue source and its rating decisions....

"Our focus in this paper is with the transaction costs inherent in most decision making settings. We specifically investigate an "institution free" collective choice mechanism that includes costs to calling votes. A set of models show that under low costs (i.e., where no cost-induced equilibrium...

In this paper we examine the dynamics of the link between inequality and inflation from a political economy perspective. We consider a simple dynamic general equilibrium model in which agents vote over the desired inflation rate in each period, and inequality is persistent. Inflation in our...

Estudiamos cómo afecta el sistema electoral a la presencia de mujeres en política usando un modelo en el que tanto los votantes como los partidos pueden tener un sesgo de género. Aplicamos el modelo a las elecciones municipales españolas, en las que, según la ley, los municipios utilizan...

In dieser Arbeit wurde die neue Methode OpenProposal zur asynchronen Anwenderbeteiligung in Software-Projekten entwickelt und im Rahmen von vergleichenden Fallstudien evaluiert. Kern der Methode stellt ein Annotationssystem zur asynchronen Erstellung und Bearbeitung von Anwenderbeiträgen dar....