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Strategic Complementarity, Stabilization Policy and the Optimal Degree of Publicity

Jonathan James Orcid Logo, Phillip Lawler

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume: 44, Issue: 4, Pages: 551 - 572

Swansea University Authors: Jonathan James Orcid Logo, Phillip Lawler

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DOI (Published version): 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2012.00501.x

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This paper examines the welfare implications of public information dissemination within a model in which information is heterogeneous across agents and where a strategic complementarity is present. The focus of the analysis is on how the presence of stabilization policy affects the case for transpar...

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ISSN: 0022-2879
Published: wiley 2012
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