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ordinary common stocks (NonREITs). Thus, information does not appear to move between the private and public asset markets in …
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The properties of information, including "information uncertainty", can be understood only Bayesianly. Common … formulations that define information uncertainty in terms of just statistical "precision" (i.e. sampling variance), or any one … estimator characteristic (e.g. bias), are inadequate for generalized Bayesian analysis. Methods that deny information a Bayesian …
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Before information φ arrives, market observers must be uncertain whether the stock price conditioned on φ will be … condition of efficient markets, it is shown under the mean-variance CAPM that information which makes the future value of a firm … general, information that allows better discrimination between firms leads some firms to have higher costs of capital and …
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Quarterly earnings conference calls convey fundamental information, as well as manager and analyst opinion about the …
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into a penalty default license. Just as penalty default rules encourage more efficient information exchange between …
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The value of information is examined in a risk-sharing environment with unawareness and complete markets. Information … show with examples that public information can make some agents strictly better off at the expense of others, contrasting … the standard results of Hirshleifer [1971] and Schlee [2001] that the value of public information is negative for all when …
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Kenneth Arrow and Karl Borch published several important articles in the early 1960s that can be viewed as the beginning of modern economic analysis of insurance activity. This chapter reviews the main theoretical and empirical contributions in insurance economics since that time. The review...
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Within the context of a competitive insurance market, this paper examines the impact of ambiguity on the behavior of buyers and sellers. Ambiguity is described through a probability measure on an extended state space that includes extra ambiguous states. It is shown that if insurers face the...
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the addition of several new chapters on risk sharing, asymmetric information, adverse selection, signaling and moral … asymmetric information in contractual relationships. It is richly illustrated with 150 figures. It is suitable for both self …
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information, equilibria are efficient, and we determine the degrees of specialization under which the specialized insurers are …
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