Sizing up Market Failures in Export Pioneering Activities -- by Shang-Jin...
We argue that existence of public good does not necessarily imply market failure, and illustrate this point in the context of international trade. An influential hypothesis states that export pioneers...
View ArticleUber vs. Taxi: A Driver's Eye View -- by Joshua D. Angrist, Sydnee Caldwell,...
Ride-hailing drivers pay a proportion of their fares to the ride-hailing platform operator, a commission-based compensation model used by many internet-mediated service providers. To Uber drivers, this...
View ArticleAttention Manipulation and Information Overload -- by Petra Persson
Limits on consumer attention give firms incentives to manipulate prospective buyers' allocation of attention. This paper models such attention manipulation and shows that it limits the ability of...
View ArticleRichard Thaler wins 2017 Nobel prize in economics – as it happened
Richard Thaler wins 2017 Nobel prize in economicshttps://t.co/1zTCNDOCwY â moneyscience (@moneyscience) October 9, 2017
View ArticleResolution of non-performing loans - policy options
Resolution of non-performing loans - policy options, FSI insights No 3, 9 October 2017
View ArticleWeekly Top 5 Papers – October 9th, 2017
1. Health Services as Credence Goods: A Field Experiment by Felix Gottschalk, Wanda Mimra and Christian Waibel (ETH Zurich – CER-ETH – Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich)read more...
View ArticleThe Nobel Prize on Twitter
BREAKING NEWS The 2017 Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Richard H. Thaler @R_Thaler @UChicago @ChicagoBooth #NobelPrizeâ¦
View ArticleBehavioral Finance -- Asset Prices Predictability, Equity Premium Puzzle,...
In this paper we address three main objections of behavioral finance to the theory of rational finance, considered as anomalies the theory of rational finance cannot explain: Predictability of asset...
View ArticleBehavioral Finance Option Pricing Formulas Consistent with Rational Dynamic...
We derive behavioral finance option pricing formulas consistent with the rational dynamic asset pricing theory. In the existing behavioral finance option pricing formulas, the price process of the...
View ArticleCounterparty Trading Limits Revisited:CSAs, IM, SwapAgent(r), from PFE to...
The utility of Potential Future Exposure (PFE) for counterparty trading limits is being challenged by new market developments, notably widespread regulatory Initial Margin (using 99% 10-day exposure),...
View ArticleShort Maturity Forward Start Asian Options in Local Volatility Models....
We study the short maturity asymptotics for prices of forward start Asian options under the assumption that the underlying asset follows a local volatility model. We obtain asymptotics for the cases of...
View ArticleRobust Forecast Aggregation. (arXiv:1710.02838v1 [q-fin.EC])
Bayesian experts with a common prior who are exposed to different evidence often make contradictory probabilistic forecasts. An aggregator who receives the forecasts must aggregate them in the best way...
View ArticleAn Optimized Microeconomic Modeling System for Analyzing Industrial...
In this paper, we provide an integrated systems modeling approach to analyzing global externalities from a microeconomic perspective. Various forms of policy (fiscal, monetary, etc.) have addressed...
View ArticleDouble Functional Median in Robust Prediction of Hierarchical Functional Time...
In this article, a new nonparametric and robust method of forecasting hierarchical functional time series is presented. The method is compared with Hyndman and Shang's method with respect to their...
View ArticleSmart Girls Screw Up Too: The No-Nonsense Guide to Creating The Life You Want
Own your screw ups, get inspired and create the life you want.read more...
View ArticleRisk weight for Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is releasing the newsletter no 20 on "Risk weight for Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank", October 2017.
View ArticleInsurance supervisory strategies for a low interest rate environment
Insurance supervisory strategies for a low interest rate environment, FSI insights No 4, 10 October 2017
View ArticleBehavioural Finance, Applied: Centapse and Oxford Risk announce new partnership
Applied Behavioural Finance: Oxford Risk And Centapse Are Excited To Announce A New Partnership - https://t.co/BqGf9eJMUO â Centapse (@Centapse) October 10,â¦
View ArticleFeedback's Impact on Innovation: A Key Tradeoff
Harvard Business School Professor Daniel Gross has a very intriguing new product development research article forthcoming in the Rand Journal of Economics. Gross studied the impact of feedback on...
View ArticleEffects of Episode-Based Payment on Health Care Spending and Utilization:...
We study how physicians respond to financial incentives imposed by episode-based bundled payment (EBP), which encourages lower spending and improved quality for an entire episode of care. Specifically,...
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