Discussion Papers
Regulating Information Disclosure Among Stock Exchange Market Makers
The paper considers the effect of mandatory last trade reporting in a competitive dealership market in the presence of traders with superior...
Callable Debt Contracts: Renegotiation and Contract Design with Ex Post Private Information
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Asset Price Variability Under Assymetric Information
This paper examines the effect of a change in the percentage of informed participants in an asset market on the variability of prices. We consider...
The Geographical Location of the Foreign Exchange Market; A Test of an 'Islands' Hypothesis
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Estimating Tax Rates on Income From Capital in the UK From Official Statistics
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Imperfect Annuities Markets with Asymmetric Information: Who Leaves Unplanned Bequests?
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Volatility of US Stock Prices
A number of recent papers have reported evidence that stock prices are more volatile than is consistent with efficient markets. We argue that the...
Intertemporal Substitution, Risk Aversion and the Euler Equation for Consumption: Evidence From Aggregate and Average Cohort Data
In this paper we investigate the empirical relevance of two theoretical issues concerning life cycle consumer optimizing behaviour: the possibility of...
Does the 1986 Insolvency Act Satisfy The Creditors' Bargain?
The creditors' bargain view of insolvency law argues that solvency state rights should be preserved in insolvency states. It argues that insolvency...
The Transactions Role of Financial Assets: a Survey
A critical survey of the literature examining the roles of various financial (and commodity) assets in the transactions process is undertaken. The...
Measuring the Cost of Capital When Taxes Are Changing with Foresight
The familiar Hall-Jorgenson (1967) approach to measuring the cost of capital considers a perturbation from the optimal path of the capital stock...