Information quality and crises in regime-change games
Journal article, Peer reviewed
Date
2015Metadata
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Abstract
When crises potentially originate from coordination failures, does a deterioration in
the quality of the information available to market participants contribute towards instability?
We address this question in a general global game of regime change with a
unique equilibrium and illustrate the implications in a debt rollover application. We
show that a reduction in the quality of information increases the likelihood of regime
change, thus reducing stability, when the net payo in the case of a successful attack is
more sensitive to the fundamentals than the net payo in the case of status quo survival.
We also discuss welfare implications.
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This is the accepted and refereed manuscript to the article