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In addition to active portfolio management, hedge funds are characterized by the allocation of portfolio performance between the external investors and the management firm accounts. This allocation can take different forms, such as the Loss Carry Forward scheme, and some of them can be coupled...
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This paper investigates the predictive accuracy of two alternative forecasting strategies, namely the forecast and information combinations. Theoretically, there should be no role for forecast combinations in a world where information sets can be instantaneously and costlessly combined. However,...
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This paper addresses the issue of what path for the economy a policymaker can implement as the unique local equilibrium, given her observation set. I consider a broad class of locally linearizable dynamic stochastic discrete-time infinite-horizon rational-expectations models, which includes most...
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Using a unique dataset merging micro data at product and store level with data on competition within local grocery markets, this paper provides an empirical analysis of a legislation that had the same effect as allowing industry-wide price floors. It shows that, after the introduction of the...
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This paper investigates a class of multiple-threshold models, called Multiple Threshold Double AR (MTDAR) models. A sufficient condition is obtained for the existence and uniqueness of a strictly stationary and ergodic solution to the first-order MTDAR model. We study the Quasi-Maximum...
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The objective of the present paper is to develop a minimax theory for the varying coefficient model in a non-asymptotic setting. We consider a high- dimensional sparse varying coefficient model where only few of the covariates are present and only some of those covariates are time dependent. Our...
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We study information transmission between an informed expert and an uninformed decision-maker when the decision is binary and the expert does not have a systematic bias. Whenever, an equilibrium exists where the decision is delegated to the expert, it is ex-ante Pareto-dominant. Adding a round...
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Our study aims to assess the actual importance of the two main channels via which upstream anti-competitive sector regulations are usually considered to impact productivity growth, i.e. by acting as a disincentive to business investments in R&D and in ICT. We estimate the specific impacts of...
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I analyze a game of persuasion in which the sender owns some soft information and can gather some costly hard evidence. I show that the sender might find it optimal to release unfavorable evidence even though disclosure is discretionary
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In the Basel regulation the required capital of a financial institution is based on conditional measures of the risk of its future equity value such as Value-at-Risk, or Expected Shortfall. In Basel 2 the uncertainty on this equity value is captured by means of changes in asset prices (market...
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