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Market participants' risk attitudes, wealth and portfolio composition in°uence their positions in a pegged foreign … solved in closed form and the methods could be used to study other economic issues in which coordination and risk aversion …
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that deterring collusion with infinitely risk averse supervisors is impossible, while it is costless to do so under risk … neutrality, we develop here a theory of collusion based on a trade-off between the risk premia required by (less extreme) risk … attitudes and incentives. This allows us to link the efficiency of collusion to the supervisor’s risk aversion and to various …
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Many firms encourage employees to own company stock through share plans that subsidizethe price at favorable rates, but even so many employees do not buy shares. Using a newsurvey of employees in a multinational with a share ownership plan, we find considerablevariation in joining among...
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This paper explains the nonneutrality of money from two assumptions: (1) consumers dislike paying prices that exceed some fair markup on firms’ marginal costs; and (2) consumers under infer marginal costs from available information. After an increase in money supply, consumers underappreciate...
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a deeper understanding as to why the economy lacks in specific areas of risk sharing arrangements. As well, it can point … to areas where the economy's risk sharing capability can be enhanced. Using household data from the Panel Study of Income … Dynamics, we find that a negligible amount of risk (around 10%) is shared in the aggregate, about 50% is shared within regions …
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risk information in the global economy. The paper examines the current state of the financial risk framework, notes its … place. The proposed open-source financial risk model separates the dual function that internal risk models perform within … financial institutions, first to attempt to optimize the risk-return profile of mostly private economic rent-seeking entities …
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Social networking is arguably the fastest growing online activity among youth people. This article presents new pan-European findings from the EU Kids Online project on how children and young people navigate the peer-to-peer networking possibilities afforded by social networking sites, based on...
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Complex regulatory decisions about risk rely on the brokering of evidence between providers and recipients, and involve … risk science, decision psychology and computer simulation. A two-agent model that accounts for the sufficiency of evidence …
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This review article tries to answer four questions: (i) what are the stylized facts about uncertainty over time; (ii) why does uncertainty vary; (iii) do fluctuations in uncertainty matter; and (iv) did higher uncertainty worsen the Great Recession of 2007-2009? On the first question both macro...
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