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We study the effects of improvements in market transparency on eBay on seller exit and continuing sellers' behavior. An … improvement in market transparency by reducing strategic bias in buyer ratings led to a significant increase in buyer valuation … the latter because of lower cost. Increasing market transparency improves on market outcomes. …
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This paper presents a market with asymmetric information where a privately revealing equilibrium obtains in a …
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This paper models the strategic interaction between a rating agency, a bank and a bank regulator who lacks information about bank asset risk. The regulator can either (1) make bank capital requirements contingent on credit ratings; or (2) set rating-independent capital requirements. Truthful...
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Traditionally banks have used securitization for expanding credit and thus their profitability. It has been well documented that, at least before the 2008 crisis, many banks were keeping a high proportion of the securities that they created on their own balance-sheets. Those securities retained...
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account both bond and issuing bank's characteristics, and also considers the role of country−specific CoCo bond market …
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A common practice of banks has been to pool assets of different qualities and then sell a fraction of the newly created portfolios to investors. We extend the signaling model for single sales of risky assets to portfolio sales. We identify conditions under which signaling at the portfolio level...
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, but the relative contribution of the two types of market turns out to be highly unstable, especially for the most deferred …. -- cointegration ; oil market ; futures prices ; price discovery …
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This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An … identified classes, the planner may need to restrict the choice space of agents to implement its second best in the market. This …
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mechanism should - in theory - provide incentives for truth-telling, many buyers in fact believe that they can increase their …
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