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In Part I we develop a model of entry in which an entrant with private information about its production cost and cost of entry has an opportunity to trade in the stock of a single incumbent before entry. We assume an efficient stock market populated by risk-neutral liquidity sellers who randomly...
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This thesis develops a model of black market for foreign currency that focuses on the interaction of portfolio decisions and the determinants of the net flows of black foreign currency. The model explicitly incorporates foreign exchange restrictions as well as the demands arising from smuggling....
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finance company for expanding the sales by offering loans to consumers who need financing for purchase of durable good. The … model presents that each captive finance company will set a more lenient credit standard than that of a bank, leading to the … captive finance company examined in Essay 1, Essay 2 examines risk segmentation of consumer loan market by banks and captive …
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In essay one, we examine nonlocalized competition in interest taxation between an arbitrary number of countries. Our focus is on the role of relative number of locked-in investors in asymmetric tax competition. We find that in equilibrium, small countries have advantages in tax competition. In...
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information in explaining one of the major puzzles in International Finance. The second essay investigates what kind of …
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The major objective of this study is to reassess the life-cycle-permanent-income hypothesis as an explanation of wealth accumulation using microeconomic empirical evidence. The technique of cohort data and cohort analysis is suggested by Deaton (1992) who referred it as a promising tool for...
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The neoclassical assumptions of perfect competition and constant returns to scale are commonly used within most areas of macroeconomic research. This is generally true of existing research on business cycles and universally true of previous studies investigating the welfare benefits of taxation...
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