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Costly information and the stock market

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In a simple, coherent, general equilibrium model it is demonstrated why stock market prices do not reflect costly but socially useless information.

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  • John Bryant, 1980. "Costly information and the stock market," Staff Report 53, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
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