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Asset Bubbles without Dividends - An Experiment
Oechssler, Jörg; Schmidt, Carsten; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2009
Bubbles in asset markets have been documented in numerous experimental studies. However, all experiments in which … bubbles occur pay dividends after each trading day. In this paper we study whether bubbles can occur in markets without … may have inside information, and (2) the option to communicate with other traders. We find that bubbles can indeed occur …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422145
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Passive investment strategies and financial bubbles
Fischer, Thomas - 2012
reswitching activities and short-term thinking of bounded rational investors. Negative bubbles (market prices lower than … fundamentals) tend to occur if active portfolio managers exhibit high risk aversion, but are less frequent than positive bubbles. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323727
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Journey into the unknown? Economic consequences of factor market integration under increasing returns to scale
Schäfer, Andreas; Steger, Thomas - 2012
What are the dynamic consequences of comprehensive integration shocks? The answer to this question appears all but trivial. We set up a dynamic macroeconomic model of a small open economy where both capital and labor are mobile and there are increasing returns to scale at the aggregate level....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309230
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Union wage setting and international trade
Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - 2012
This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium model with two countries that differ in the centralization of union wage setting. Being interested in the consequences of openness, we show that, in the short-run, trade increases welfare and employment in both locations, and it raises...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319751
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Fiscal competition for imperfectly-mobile labor and capital: a comparative dynamic analysis
Wildasin, David E. - 2009
Interjurisdictional flows of imperfectly-mobile migrants, investment, and other productive resources result in the costly dynamic adjustment of resource stocks. This paper investigates the comparative dynamics of adjustment to changes in local fiscal policy with two imperfectly mobile productive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271272
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Subsidizing renewable energy under capital mobility
Eichner, Thomas; Runkel, Marco - 2010
This paper provides a rationale for subsidizing green (renewable) energy production. Within a multi-country model where energy is produced with mobile capital in green and dirty production, we investigate the countries' decentralized choice of emissions taxes and green energy subsidies. Without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274981
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Wage competition with international capital mobility
Lorz, Jens Oliver - 1997
This paper analyzes wage competition between national trade unions caused by the international mobility of capital. Perfect capital mobility leads to a Bertrand result for the outcome of wage competition: A pure strategy equilibrium implies full employment in all countries. It is shown that such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275331
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Who is afraid of capital mobility? On labor taxation and the level of public services in an open economy
Lorz, Jens Oliver; Stähler, Frank - 1997
This paper deals with the impact of international capital mobility on labor taxes and the size of the public sector. It employs a model of the labor market, where national trade unions arc able to set wages above the competitive level. In a closed economy, a higher labor tax raises wage demands...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275344
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Rethinking the Economics of Capital Mobilityand Capital Controls
Palley, Thomas I. - 2009
This paper reexamines the issue of international financial capital mobility, which is today's economic orthodoxy. Discussion is often framed in terms of the impossible trinity. That framing distorts discussion by representing capital mobility as having equal significance with sovereign monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460473
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Journey into the unknown? Economic consequences of factor market integration under increasing returns to scale
Schäfer, Andreas; Steger, Thomas - 2011
What are the dynamic consequences of comprehensive integration shocks? The answer to this question appears all but trivial. We set up a dynamic macroeconomic model of a small open economy where both capital and labor are mobile and there are increasing returns to scale at the aggregate level....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280639