• Partial Adjustment to Public Information in the Pricing of IPOs 

      Bakke, Einar; Leite, Tore E.; Thorburn, Karin S. (Working paper, 2016-01)
      Extant literature shows that IPO first-day returns are correlated with market returns preceding the issue. We propose a new explanation for this puzzling predictability by adding a public signal to Benveniste and Spindt ...
    • Secrecy Jurisdictions 

      Schjelderup, Guttorm (Discussion paper;12/15, Working paper, 2015-03-10)
      This paper surveys tax haven legislation and links the literature on tax havens to the literature on asymmetric information. I argue that the core aim of tax haven legislation is to create private information (secrecy) ...
    • When a price is enough : implementation in optimal tax design 

      Rennes, Sander; Zoutman, Floris T. (Discussion paper;32/14, Working paper, 2014-09)
      This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's secondbest allocation in a market economy. An example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible ...