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We study information acquisition in a flexible framework with strategic complementarity or substitutability in actions and a rich set of externalities that are responsible for possible wedges between the equilibrium and the efficient acquisition of information. First, we relate the...
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We create an alternative version of the present utility value formula to explicitly show that every store-of-value in the economy bears utility-interest (non-pecuniary income) for its holder regardless of possible interest earnings from financial markets. In addition, we generalize the...
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This paper presents a welfare analysis of several capital insurance programs in a rational expectation equilibrium setting. We first explicitly characterize the equilibrium of each capital insurance program. Then, we demonstrate that a capital insurance program based on aggregate loss is better...
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volatility, ostensibly improving market efficiency. But it also reduces each agent's consumption through a decrease in the price …
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volatility, and increase the share of profits for unsophisticated human traders. Our results offer unique evidence that non …
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We assess the quantitative implications of the re-use of collateral on financial market leverage, volatility, and … significantly increases volatility in financial markets. When introducing limits on re-use, we find that volatility is strictly …
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We assess the quantitative implications of collateral re-use on leverage, volatility, and welfare within an infinite … used to back more transactions. Re-use thus contributes to the buildup of leverage and significantly increases volatility in … financial markets. When introducing limits on re-use, we find that volatility is strictly decreasing as these limits become …
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In this paper we examine the quantitative effects of margin regulation on volatility in asset markets. We consider a … presence of collateral constraints leads to strong excess volatility. Thus, a regulation of margin requirements may have … in the regulation of one class of assets may have only small effects on these assets' return volatility if investors have …
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We assess the quantitative implications of collateral re-use on leverage, volatility, and welfare within an infinite … used to back more transactions. Re-use thus contributes to the buildup of leverage and significantly increases volatility … in financial markets. When introducing limits on re-use, we find that volatility is strictly decreasing as these limits …
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nonlinear external habits can rationalize the evidence, and it implies that the competitive volatility of consumption is … volatility (a targeting of risk premia) rather than on filling the gap between consumption and its flexible-price counterpart …
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