Like equity markets, credit markets seem chronically short-sighted. When debt is serviced regularly, creditors seem to get complacent about the risks. When default shocks them out of complacency, they seem to overreact. Reinhart and Rogoff (2009) contended that sovereign debt markets have been...

Adding a stage of signal acquisition to the expected utility model shows that Bayesian updating results in a well defined law of demand for financial information when asset return distributions are conjugate priors to signals such as in the gamma-Poisson case. Signals have a positive marginal...