This dissertation consists of three essays, the first two on the foreign exchange market and the third on credit markets.Chapter 2 examines empirically the exchange rateinterest differential relationship in a co-integration framework. We test and estimate an error correction model (ECM) for the...

The fundamental question I address in the dissertation is how the behavior of economic agents interacts with networks of relationships which underlie a wide set of economic situations. In Ch. 2, entitled "Decentralized Information Sharing in Oligopoly," I analyze the incentives of firms for...