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competition from short sellers. An experiment and instrumental variable analysis confirm this causal relationship. The effects are …
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This paper examines the interplay between financial market trading and product market competition. An entrant learns … trading cost in stock market promotes product market competition …
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Recent theoretical work suggests that short sellers can manipulate firms into making suboptimal investment decisions. In this study, I empirically test whether short sellers improve or harm the efficiency of firms' capital investment. Overall, I show that short selling improves the efficiency of...
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I study short-sale constraints in a market with asymmetric information. I offer a novel approach endogenizing short-sale constraints by including an asset-borrowing market in my model. Short-sellers have to borrow an asset and therefore reveal information to a lender. The lender trades on her...
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Though short sellers on average succeed at identifying overvalued equity, firms often signal disagreement with short sellers by repurchasing stock when short interest increases. We investigate whether this disagreement reflects a myopic defense of inflated prices, or positive private...
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In the following paper we analyze the strategic competition between fast and slow traders. The model of Kyle (1985) is …
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We consider an exchange economy in which a seller can trade an endowment of a divisible good whose quality she privately knows. Buyers compete in menus of non-exclusive contracts, so that the seller may choose to trade with several buyers. In this context, we show that an equilibrium always...
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English Abstract: Financial liberalization accelerates global banks’ entry into new markets where host countries hope to spur investment and economic growth. However, banks sometimes retreat from their global ambitions and exit these new markets. This study demonstrates how difficulties of...
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We study a winner-take-all R&D race where firms are privately informed about the uncertain arrival rate of the invention. Due to the interdependent-value nature of the problem, the equilibrium displays a strong herding effect that distinguishes our framework from war-of-attrition models....
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This paper addresses the desirability of competition in banking industry. In a model where banks compete on both … three questions: what are the effects of competition on banks' monitoring incentives? Does competition hurt banks' stability …? What can be devices to correct potential negative effects of competition vis à vis financial stability? We find that …
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