In the 2001 U.S. Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), 27% of households report simultaneously revolving significant credit card debt and holding sizeable amounts of liquid assets. These consumers report paying, on average, a 14% interest rate on their debt, while earning only 1 or 2% on their...

This paper develops a theoretical framework for studying contract and enforcement in settings with nondurable trading opportunities and complete but unverifiable information. The framework explicitly accounts for the parties’ individual trade actions. The sets of implementable...

We develop a new asymptotic theory for autocorrelation robust tests using a vector autoregressive (VAR) covariance matrix estimator. In contrast to the conventional asymptotics where the VAR order goes to infinity but at a slower rate than the sample size, wehave the VAR order grow at the...

This paper develops a New Trade Theory model modified with entry barriers, thereby creating a link between the traditional interests of development and industrial organization economists and research on international trade. I show that entry barriers cause the market size to become endogenous by...

This paper suggests the use of simple minimum distance methods to estimate restricted cointegrating vectors. The method directly employs minimum distance methods on unrestricted cointegrating matrices estimated in the usual way to estimate restricted parameters which are linearly or nonlinearly...

Fixed effects estimators in nonlinear panel models with fixed and short time series length T usually suffer from inconsistency because of the incidental parameters problem first noted by Neyman and Scott (1948). Moreover, even if T grows but at a rate not faster than the cross sectional sample...

Add a stage of signal acquisition to a canonical model of portfolio choice.Under fully revealing asset price, investors' information demand reflects their choice of transparency. In reducing uncertainty, financial transparency raises expected asset price and thus benefits holders of the risky...

This paper introduces a new type of nonlinear model, the min-max model, and analyzes the properties for a pair of series. Stability conditions of this system are given for the nonlinearly integrated bivariate series. Under these stability conditions, the difference of the two series has a...