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We conduct a contest experiment where participants can invest in increasing both the mean and the spread of an uncertain performance variable. Subjects are treated with different prize schemes and in accordance with theory we observe substantial investments in spread. We find that both types of...
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In this article I analyze strategic investment under uncertainty in a new market, where firms face a tradeoff between … highly profitable. If uncertainty is small, the model yields (approximately) Stackelberg outcomes …
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The Expected Shortfall (ES) is one of the most important regulatory risk measures in finance, insurance, and statistics, which has recently been characterized via sets of axioms from perspectives of portfolio risk management and statistics. Meanwhile, there is large literature on insurance...
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games, beauty contests, and their applications. We elaborate on the distinct effects of strategic uncertainty relative to … fundamental uncertainty. We demonstrate the potential fragility of workhorse macroeconomic models to relaxations of common …
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games, beauty contests, and their applications. We elaborate on the distinct effects of strategic uncertainty relative to … fundamental uncertainty. We demonstrate the potential fragility of workhorse macroeconomic models to relaxations of common …
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underestimates true economic cost. Valuation under uncertainty implies a risk premium or discount. Because the expenditure of … transaction cost reduces uncertainty, transaction cost and risk adjusted valuation are in dynamic tension. Under this approach … operating under uncertainty. Accordingly, this article rejects the normative axiom that litigation is inferior to settlement, a …
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Market participants' risk attitudes, wealth and portfolio composition influence their positions in a pegged foreign currency and, therefore, may have important effects on the sustainability of currency pegs. We analyze such effects in a global game model of currency crises with continuous action...
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We analyze the effect of risk aversion, wealth and portfolios on the behavior of investors in a global game model of currency crises with continuous action choices. The model generates a rich set of striking theoretical predictions. For example, risk aversion makes currency crises significantly...
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We examine the relation between exchange rate variability and stock return volatility for U.S. multinational firms and decompose this relation into components of systematic and diversifiable risk. Focusing on two five-year periods around the 1973 switch from fixed to floating exchange rates, we...
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Arad and Rubinstein (2012, AER) proposed the 11-20 money request game as an alternative to the P beauty contest game for measuring the depth of thinking. In this paper, we find that choices in the 11-20 game are confounded with risk aversion; hence, the depth of thinking measured is confounded...
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