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Financial Integration: A New Methodology and an Illustration

Flood, Robert P; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper develops a simple new methodology to test for asset integration and applies it within and between American stock markets. Our technique is tightly based on a general intertemporal asset-pricing model, and relies on estimating and comparing expected risk-free rates across assets....

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Estimating the Expected Marginal Rate of Substitution: Exploiting Idiosyncratic Risk

Flood, Robert P; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper develops a simple but general methodology to estimate the expected intertemporal marginal rate of substitution or ‘EMRS’, using only data on asset prices and returns. Our empirical strategy is general, and allows the EMRS to vary arbitrarily over time. A novel feature of our...

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Takeovers and the Dynamics of Information Flows

Chemla, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper analyses the effect of a possible takeover on information flows and on the terms of trade in business relationships. We consider a long-term relationship between a firm and a privately-informed stakeholder, a buyer for example. In our model, takeovers both increase the surplus from...

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Currency Unions and International Integration

Engel, Charles M; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper characterizes the integration patterns of international currency unions (such as the CFA Franc zone and the East Caribbean Currency Area). We empirically explore different features of currency unions, and compare them both to countries with sovereign monies, and to regions within...

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Why do within firm-product export prices differ across markets?

Görg, Holger; Halpern, László; Muraközy, Balázs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

constant markups. The differences are important quantitatively; price differences in Hungarian exports between Germany and the …

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Heterogeneity in Wage Setting Behavior in a New-Keynesian Model

Eijffinger, Sylvester C W; Grajales, Anderson; Uras, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

In this paper we estimate a New-Keynesian DSGE model with heterogeneity in price and wage setting behavior. In a recent … study, Coibion and Gorodnichenko (2011) develop a DSGE model, in which firms follow four different types of price setting … heterogeneity in wage rigidity, such as the persistence in price and the wage inflation, which a standard New Keynesian model with …

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Internal versus External Growth in Industries with Scale Economies: A Computational Model of Optimal Merger Policy

Mermelstein, Ben; Nocke, Volker; Satterthwaite, Mark; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We study optimal merger policy in a dynamic model in which the presence of scale economies implies that firms can … the period the merger is proposed. We also find that the ability to commit can lead to a significant welfare improvement …

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On the Real Effects of Bank Bailouts: Micro-Evidence from Japan

Giannetti, Mariassunta; Simonov, Andrei - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Exploiting the Japanese banking crisis as a laboratory, we provide firm-level evidence on the real effects of bank bailouts. Government recapitalizations result in positive abnormal returns for the clients of recapitalized banks. After recapitalizations, banks extend larger loans to their...

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Mergers as Auctions

Ivaldi, Marc; Motis, Jrissy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

structural approach to infer acquirers’ gains from merging by interpreting a merger as an auction. Using nonparametric methods …

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Weddings with Uncertain Prospects - Mergers under Asymmetric Information

Borek, Thomas; Bühler, Stefan; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

the respective mono-tonicity properties. If the profit differential between post-merger and pre-merger profits satisfies … equilibria of merger games with simultaneous and sequential moves. The application of our framework to specific oligopoly models … illustrates that the introduction of two-sided asymmetric information may lead to considerable changes in the predicted merger …

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