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How does public and private information affect equilibrium and welfare in an economy with investment complementarities? And what is the optimal transparency in the information disseminated by economic data or policy announcements? When complementarities are weak so that the equilibrium is always...
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Policy commitment and credibility are important for inducing agents to make costly, irreversible investments. Policy uncertainty can delay investment and reduce the response to policy change. I provide theoretical and novel quantitative evidence for these effects by focusing on trade policy, a...
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trade access, and the costs of post-Brexit operational adjustments. Consistent with the predictions of canonical theory …
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We propose a text-based method for measuring and analyzing the international propagation of uncertainty shocks at the firm level. We apply this method to estimate the impact of Brexit-related uncertainty and find widespread reverberations on listed firms in 81 countries. International firms most...
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The paper studies risk mitigation associated with capital regulation, in a context when banks may choose tail risk … assets. We show that this undermines the traditional result that higher capital reduces excess risk-taking driven by limited … liability. When capital raising is costly, poorly capitalized banks may limit risk to avoid breaching the minimal capital ratio …
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cooperate to improve the group's outcome by sharing their wealth in non-compulsory, non-enforceable risk-sharing arrangements …. We find that average subject behavior appears to be motivated by self-interest more than group survival. -- risk sharing …
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This paper examines the ability of a policy maker to control equilibrium outcomes in a global coordination game; applications include currency attacks, bank runs, and debt crises. A unique equilibrium is known to survive when the policy is exogenously fixed. We show that, by conveying...
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This paper studies the interaction between monetary and fiscal authorities while investors are coordinating on a speculative attack. The authorities want to achieve specific targets for output and inflation but also to avoid a regime change (i.e. sovereign default). They use the traditional...
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This paper analyzes a regulator's optimal strategic delay of resolving banks when a resolution causes inefficiencies. The regulator observes depositors' withdrawals at the bank level and needs to decide on how many withdrawals to tolerate before intervening to impose a mandatory stay. The...
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In settings of runs on financial firms, policy makers have developed different forms of policy intervention for stopping, easing or preventing runs. This paper characterizes types of policy intervention that indeed lead to a lower run-propensity ex ante versus types that lead to preemptive...
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