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We argue that capital misallocation arises endogenously due to incomplete consumption insurance. We model risk-averse entrepreneurs with heterogeneous productivity who face idiosyncratic output shocks and choose how much capital to rent before uncertainty unfolds. We show that incomplete markets...
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We study the differential impact of exchange rate volatility on cost efficiency and market structure when banks have … non-trivial exposures to foreign currency operations. First, we document that cost efficiency estimates are both severely …
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We analyze the effectiveness of intervention in the European Monetary System by using daily data on the DEM-intervention activity of six European central banks, covering the period from August 1993 to April 1998. To test for the influence of intervention we apply EGARCH models. To allow for...
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We study the differential impact of exchange rate volatility on cost efficiency and market structure when banks have … cost efficiency estimates are both severely downward biased---by 30 percentage points on average---and generally not rank … dependence in the bank cost efficiency rankings constructed with the revaluations being kept or dropped. We relate this …
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