Uncertainty about product quality is endemic in international trade. We develop a dynamic, two country model where home producers differ in terms of the quality of the products they sell. This quality is imperfectly observed by foreign consumers initially but known once the product is consumed....

We propose a model of delegated asset management that can explain the following empirical regularities in international markets: the presence of home bias, the lower proportion of mutual funds investing domestically, and the higher market value of mutual funds investing domestically. In the...

We propose a model of delegated asset management in which individual investors are more informed about the domestic market than the foreign market and face uncertainty about quality of portfolio managers. The model shows that asymmetric information of individual investors results in home bias...

Importers rarely observe the price of every good in every market because of information frictions. In this paper, we seek to explain how the presence of such frictions shape the flow of goods between countries. To this end, we introduce rationally inattentive importers in a multi-country...

We study the asset pricing implications of attention allocation theories. These theories allow us to predict the arrival of private information by observing investors' behavior. Specifically, attention allocation theories suggest that the arrival of private news to local investors lead to an...

Importers rarely observe the price of every good in every market because of informational frictions. In this paper, we aim to explain how the presence of such frictions shapes the pattern of trade across countries. To this end, we introduce rationally inattentive importers in the Ricardian trade...