Large investors often advertise private information at private talks or in the media. To analyse the incentives for information disclosure, I develop a two-period Kyle (1985) type model in which an informed short-horizon investor strategically discloses private information to enhance price...

In this paper, we evaluate seven simple monetary policy rules in a wide range of models of the Canadian economy. Our results indicate that none of the seven simple policy rules we examined is robust to model uncertainty, in that no single rule performs well in all models. In fact, our results...

Online reviews and ratings help consumers learn more about products. However, mixed findings have been found regarding the effects of ratings on consumer decision-making. Such lack of effect may be due to the limitation of single-dimensional ratings. This paper aims to explore whether...