Discussion Papers

This is considerable empirical evidence that most investors participate in only a limited number of markets. Once the participation decision is...

Realignment expectations which measure exchange rate credibility are analyzed for European exchange rates, using daily financial data since the...

Fixed exchange rates are less volatile than floating rates. But the volatility of macroeconomic variables such as money and output does not change...

A large body of empirical research has found that stock returns tend to be higher in January than in other months. One possible explanation is that...

Within an optimal contracting framework, we analyze some important aspects of debt structure: the number of creditors a company borrows from; the...

This paper reassesses the UK results of significant abnormal returns from directors' trading for a new sample of directors' trades 1984-1986, and...

Using transactions data from the London Stock Exchange, the paper estimates the extent to which market maker's prices are influenced by trades (order...

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This paper addresses the economics of mass privatization in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungry and Poland; it provides a summary description of the...

Traditional empirical strategies for studying convergence—more generally, the dynamics and determinants of economic growth—can be misleading if...

This paper investigates the empirical relationship between volatility, average spread, and number of quotations in the foreign exchange spot market...

This paper combines three strands of recent work in theoretical macroeconomics: (i) general equilibrium models with "sunspot solutions", i.e...

It is often argued that greater transparency of the trading process enhances market liquidity by reducing the opportunities for taking advantage of...

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