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The underpricing of initial public offerings is a well-documented fact of empirical equity market research. Theories explain this underpricing with market imperfections. We study three empirically relevant IPO mechanisms under almost perfect market conditions in the laboratory: a stylized book...
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.S. mergers between 1997 and 2017. I document that following a merger announcement, the most likely competitors experience on …There is a growing concern that U.S. merger control may have been too lenient, but empirical evidence remains limited …. Event studies have been used as one method to acquire empirical insights into the competitive effects of mergers. However …
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I develop a search-and-bargaining model of endogenous intermediation in over-the-counter markets. Unlike the existing work, my model allows for rich investor heterogeneity in three simultaneous dimensions: preferences, inventories, and meeting rates. By comparing trading-volume patterns that...
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We develop a dynamic matching and bargaining game with aggregate uncertainty about the relative scarcity of a commodity. We use our model to study price discovery in a decentralized exchange economy: Traders gradually learn about the state of the market through a sequence of multilateral...
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buyers. In particular, I show that when trade is decentralized and participation isendogenous, constrained asset demand and …
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When a new asset keeps changing its narrative, investors find difficulty in classifying and understanding the new asset. Rational investors therefore face unprecedented uncertainty and learn about the joint dynamics to optimize their portfolio accordingly. Bitcoin's "digital gold" narrative, as...
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9-ending prices are a dominant feature of many retail settings, which according to the existing literature, is because consumers perceive them as being relatively low. Are 9-ending prices really lower than comparable non 9-ending prices? Surprisingly, the empirical evidence on this question is...
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disadvantaged investors and entrepreneurs from the market. We recommend a market design that allows for some excessive demand. Such …
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This paper shows that in asset pricing the information environment gives rise to a systematic risk factor when the informativeness of future news events varies with their content (i.e., bad news and good news are not equally informative). The paper further shows that in such cases (cross) serial...
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We show in a simple framework that momentum trading can exist in equilibrium and momentum trading is profitable. Properties of the model fit the empirics well. First, the model captures in a parsimonious manner both short-term overreaction and long-term reversals. Second, it predicts that...
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