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Liquidity as Social Expertise

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  • Pablo Kurlat

    (Stanford University)

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I study a model of trading where publicly available information about assets has an unknown joint distribution with the quality of the underlying asset. Efficiency losses are a function of how well traders know this joint distribution, which can vary endogenous are traders learn from past trades.

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  • Pablo Kurlat, 2014. "Liquidity as Social Expertise," 2014 Meeting Papers 520, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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    JEL classification:

    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading

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