The Paper investigates the impact of financial integration on asset return, risk diversification and breadth of financial markets. We analyse a three-country macroeconomic model in which i) the ...
Empirically, demand and market size effects play an important role for international trade in assets and the determination of asset prices. Financial integration decreases the cost of capital, asset ...
This paper explores the extent to which the presence of ex- ante transaction costs may lead to failures of the Coase Theorem. In particular we identify and investigate the basic'hold-up problem'which ...
Transaction costs are one of the key challenges that private forest landowners may face in participating in emerging carbon markets. As most forestlands in the United States occur in the form of ...
In this paper we study theeectsof transaction costs on asset prices. We assume an overlapping generations economy with a riskless, liquid bond, and many risky stocks carrying proportional transaction ...
We study the effect of transaction costs (e.g., a trading fee ora transaction tax, like the To bin tax) on the aggregation of private information in financial markets. We implement a financial market ...
We examine the loss inutility fora consumer who ignores any or all of the following: (1) the multi-period nature of the consumer 'sportfolio-choice problem, (2) the empirically documented ...
There has been considerable theorizing in the new institutional economics about the relationship between transaction costs and institutional change. However, there have been few attempts to measure ...
The central theme of this paper is the relationship between trading cost, technology, and the nature of intermediation in the trading services industry. Electronic markets embodying automated trade ...
In the paper, an analogy with length measurement is applied in order to explore the nature of the unit for value measurement, i.e. the unit of account. As the meter is defined as the length traveled ...