Corporate governance and regulation: Can there be too much of a good thing?
For a large number of companies from different countries, we analyze how company corporate governance practices and country regulatory regimes...
Are there Monday effects in stock returns: a stochastic dominance approach
We provide a test of the Monday effect in daily stock index returns. Unlike previous studies we define the Monday effect based on the stochastic...
Money Illusion and Housing Frenzies
A reduction in inflation can fuel run-ups in housing prices if people suffer from money illusion. For example, investors who decide whether to rent or...
Monetary policy and its informative value
This paper analyzes the welfare effects of economic transparency in the conduct of monetary policy. We propose a model of monopolistic competition...
The optimal design of funded pensions
In many countries, pension funds based on individual accounts have been affected by high operating costs. Contract theory helps to unravel the nature...
Long-term care insurance, annuities and asymmetric information: the case for bundling contracts
Within an asymmetric information set-up in which individuals differ in terms of their risk aversion and can choose whether or not to take preventative...
Regionality Revisited: an examination of the direction of spread of currency crises
What determines the direction of spread of currency crises? We examine data on waves of currency crises in 1992, 1994, 1997, and 1998 to evaluate...
Speculative attacks with multiple sources of public information
We propose a speculative attack model in which agents receive multiple public signals. It is characterised by its focus on an informational structure...
Choice of corporate risk management tools under moral hazard
This paper examines the choice of tools for managing a firm’s operational risks: cash reserves, insurance contracts, and financial assets under an...
Consistent measures of risk
In this paper we compare overall as well as downside risk mea- sures with respect to the criteria of first and second order stochastic dominance...
Incentive design under loss aversion
Compensation schemes often reward success but do not penalize failure. Fixed salaries with stock options or bonuses have this feature. Yet the...
Equilibrium asset pricing with systemic risk
We provide an equilibrium multi-asset pricing model with micro-founded systemic risk and heterogeneous investors. Systemic risk arises due to...
Hedge funds and financial stability: explaining the debate at the financial stability forum
The regulatory story of hedge funds is a remarkable one, especially for an investment class born to remain outside any regulatory oversight.
Compensating wage differentials for defined benefit and defined contribution occupational pension scheme benefits
The theory of equalizing differences suggests that employer provided pension benefits should be compensated by reduced wage benefits for an employee’s...
