We focus on the effect of state versus private ownership on the rates of firm-specific productivity growth and cost decline by developing a model of endogenous, firm-specific productivity growth and testing its implications against panel data on 23 international airlines of varying levels of...

Risky-asset prices are conventionally modeled as quot;fully (information-) revealingquot;. Much less work has been done on how prices get to reveal information. Following the quot;noisy-pricesquot;, rational-expectations approach, our answer focuses on the micro-foundations of information...

Risky-asset prices are conventionally modeled as "fully (information-) revealing". Much less work has been done on how prices get to reveal information. Following the "noisy-prices", rational-expectations approach, our answer focuses on the micro-foundations of information acquisition and the...