Coordination, learning, and delay
This paper studies how the introduction of social learning with costs to delay affects coordination games with incomplete information. We present a...
Economic Policy and Exchange Rate Regimes: What Have we Learned in the 10 Years Since Black Wednesday?
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Britain, Germany and EMU: What have we learned in the 10 years since Black Wednesday? 3 Selected Papers
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Hedging housing risk in London
This paper investigates the benefits of allowing households to compensate the portfolio distortion due to their housing consumption through...
The impact of wealth on consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK
Housing and pension wealth are shown to be important determinants of personal sector consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK. Housing and state...
Consistent testing for stochastic dominance : a subsampling approach
We study a very general setting, and propose a procedure for estimating the critical values of the extended Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests of First and...
A transaction level study of the effects of central bank intervention on exchange rates
We study the effects of sterilised intervention operations executed on behalf of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) using tick-by-tick transactions data...
Loan securitisation: default term structure and asset pricing based on loss prioritisation
Ambivalence in the regulatory definition of capital adequacy for credit risk has recently stirred the financial services industry to collateral loan...
Returns from active management in international equity markets; evidence from a panel of UK pension funds
This paper proposes new performance decomposition measures that allow us to analyse the sources of returns on the international equity holdings of a...
Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry
Despite being largely unconstrained in their investment decisions, we find evidence of clustering in the performance of a large cross-section of UK...
Speculative attacks and financial architecture: experimental analysis of coordination games with public and private information
Speculative Attacks can be modeled as a coordination game with multiple equilibria if the state of the economy is common knowledge. With private...
Financial Supervision: Which Model for Europe?
Increasing integration within the European Union (EU) gives rise to cross-border spill-over effects or externalities. The present national based...
