Michel A. Robe

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Clearing Corporation Foundation Professor in Derivatives Trading

601 E John St

Champaign, IL 61820

United States

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1.

Fundamentals, Trader Activity and Derivative Pricing

EFA 2009 Bergen Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 02 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2009
Bahattin Buyuksahin, Michael S. Haigh, Jeffrey H. Harris, James A. Overdahl and Michel A. Robe
CoMeX Consulting and Advising, Standard Chartered Bank, American University - Department of Finance and Real Estate, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Crude Oil Futures, Maturity, Segmentation, Cointegration, Trading Activity, Fundamentals

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Commodities and Equities: 'A Market of One'?

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 11 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2009
Bahattin Buyuksahin, Michael S. Haigh and Michel A. Robe
CoMeX Consulting and Advising, Standard Chartered Bank and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Commodities, Equities, Dynamic conditional correlations, DCC, Cointegration, Extreme-events correlations

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Speculators, Commodities and Cross-Market Linkages

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Speculators, Commodities and Cross-Market Linkages

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 13 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2012
Bahattin Buyuksahin and Michel A. Robe
CoMeX Consulting and Advising and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Financialization, Cross-Market Linkages, Commodities, Equities, Hedge funds, Index funds, Dynamic conditional correlations (DCC)

Speculators, Commodities and Cross-Market Linkages

Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 42, 2014
Posted: 09 Jun 2014
Bahattin Buyuksahin and Michel A. Robe
CoMeX Consulting and Advising and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Does 'Paper Oil' Matter? Energy Markets’ Financialization and Equity-Commodity Co-Movements

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 30 May 2011 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2014
Bahattin Buyuksahin and Michel A. Robe
CoMeX Consulting and Advising and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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The Impact of Illegal Insider Trading in Dealer and Specialist Markets

EFA 2001 Barcelona Meetings
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 11 Jul 2001
Raymond P.H. Fishe and Michel A. Robe
University of Richmond - E. Claiborne Robins School of Business and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Insider Trading, Depth, Business Week, Specialist, Dealer Market

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Limited Liability Rules, Financial Innovation and Capital Structure Complexity

EFA 2002 Berlin Meetings Presented Paper
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 11 Jan 2002
Michel A. Robe
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Agency, Moral Hazard, Liability Rules, Optimal Capital Structure, Warrants as Financial Innovation

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Electronic Market Makers, Trader Anonymity and Market Fragility

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 03 Jun 2014
Vikas Raman, Michel A. Robe and Pradeep K. Yadav
Lancaster University - Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Oklahoma Price College of Business
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Voluntary market-making, Electronic trading, HFT, Liquidity provision under stress

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Do OPEC Members Know Something the Market Doesn’t? ‘Fair Price’ Pronouncements and the Market Price of Crude Oil

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 06 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2015
Bahattin Buyuksahin, Celso Brunetti, Michel A. Robe and Kirsten R. Soneson
CoMeX Consulting and Advising, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
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Crude oil, OPEC, Fair price, Announcement, Market price, Event study, Kalman filter, Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ADL)

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How Costly are Limited Liability Rules?

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 03 May 1999
Michel A. Robe
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Demutualization and Customer Protection at Self-Regulatory Financial Exchanges

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Demutualization and Customer Protection at Self-Regulatory Financial Exchanges

Journal of Futures Markets, Forthcoming, EFA 2007 Ljubljana Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 01 May 2010
David Reiffen and Michel A. Robe
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Demutualization, Ownership structure, SRO, Regulation of financial exchanges, Enforcement delegation, Customer protection

Demutualization and Customer Protection at Self-Regulatory Financial Exchanges

Journal of Futures Markets, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 126-164, February 2011.
Posted: 04 May 2010 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2011
David Reiffen and Michel A. Robe
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Demutualization, Ownership structure, Regulation of financial exchanges, Enforcement delegation, Trade practice Rules, Broker heterogeneity

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On the Welfare Cost of Business Cycles in Developing Countries

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 10 Sep 2001
Michel A. Robe and Stephane Pallage
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Quebec at Montreal - Department of Economics
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Does it Matter Who Trades Energy Derivatives?

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Does it Matter Who Trades Energy Derivatives?

FEEM (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei), Review of Environment, Energy and Economics (Re3), March 2012
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 28 Mar 2012
Bahattin Buyuksahin and Michel A. Robe
CoMeX Consulting and Advising and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Financial Institutions, Energy Derivatives, Speculation, Financialization, Cross-Market Linkages

Does it Matter Who Trades Energy Derivatives?

Review of Environment, Energy and Economics, March 2012
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 28 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 01 May 2012
Bahattin Buyuksahin and Michel A. Robe
CoMeX Consulting and Advising and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Financial Institutions, Energy Derivatives, Speculation, Financialization, Cross-Market Linkages

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Penalties and Optimality in Financial Contracts: Taking Stock

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 14 Jan 2006
Michel A. Robe, Eva-Maria Steiger and Pierre-Armand Michel
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Strategic Interaction Group and University of Liege - HEC Management School
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Limited Liability, Bankruptcy, Debt Bondage, Debtors' Prison, History

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The Financialization of Food?

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The Financialization of Food?

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 17 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2016
Valentina Bruno, Bahattin Buyuksahin and Michel A. Robe
American University - Department of Finance and Real Estate, CoMeX Consulting and Advising and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Financialization, Fundamentals, Grains, Livestock, Equities, Co-movements, ADCC, Structural VAR

The Financialization of Food?

American Journal of Agricultural Economics 99 (1): 243-264, January 2017
Posted: 22 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2017
Valentina Bruno, Bahattin Buyuksahin and Michel A. Robe
American University - Department of Finance and Real Estate, CoMeX Consulting and Advising and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Financialization, Fundamentals, Grains, Livestock, Equities

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Market Incompleteness and the Equity Premium Puzzle: Evidence from State-Level Data

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Market Incompleteness and the Equity Premium Puzzle: Evidence from State-Level Data

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 Apr 2005
Kris Jacobs, Stephane Pallage and Michel A. Robe
University of Houston - C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Quebec at Montreal - Department of Economics and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Heterogeneity, idiosyncratic consumption risk, incomplete markets, consumption-based model, risk aversion, equity premium puzzle

Market Incompleteness and the Equity Premium Puzzle: Evidence from State-Level Data

Journal of Banking & Finance, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 378-388, 2013
Posted: 15 Jan 2013
Kris Jacobs, Stephane Pallage and Michel A. Robe
University of Houston - C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Quebec at Montreal - Department of Economics and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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heterogeneity, idiosyncratic consumption risk, incomplete markets, consumption-based asset pricing model, risk aversion, equity premium puzzle

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Shock Propagation Across the Futures Term Structure: Evidence from Crude Oil Prices

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Shock Propagation Across the Futures Term Structure: Evidence from Crude Oil Prices

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 18 May 2018
Delphine Lautier, Franck Raynaud and Michel A. Robe
University Paris Dauphine, Lausanne University, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Mutual information, Market integration, Shocks propagation, Information entropy, Shock Propagation, Directed graphs, Term structure, Futures, Crude oil, WTI

Shock Propagation Across the Futures Term Structure: Evidence from Crude Oil Prices

The Energy Journal 40(3): 125-153, 2019
Posted: 24 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2019
Delphine Lautier, Michel A. Robe and Franck Raynaud
University Paris Dauphine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Lausanne University, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

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Who Holds Positions in Agricultural Futures Markets

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 25 Aug 2019
Michel A. Robe and John Spencer Roberts
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
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Agricultural futures, Open interest composition, Term structure, Calendar spreading

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The States vs. The States: On the Welfare Cost of Business Cycles in the U.S.

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 10 Oct 2002
Michel A. Robe and Stephane Pallage
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Quebec at Montreal - Department of Economics
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Business Cycles, Regional Volatility, Growth, Welfare

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The Welfare Costs of Macroeconomic Fluctuations Under Incomplete Markets: Evidence from State-Level Consumption Data

CIRPEE Working Paper No. 05-24
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 24 Aug 2005
Kris Jacobs, Stephane Pallage and Michel A. Robe
University of Houston - C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Quebec at Montreal - Department of Economics and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Incomplete markets, consumption volatility, growth, welfare

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The Dollar's 'Convenience Yield'

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 21 Sep 2017
Michel A. Robe
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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CIP, Cross-Currency Basis, Scarcity, Convenience Yield, Commodities

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On the Potential of Foreign Aid as Insurance

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 Jul 2006
Michel A. Robe, Stephane Pallage and Catherine Berube
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Quebec at Montreal - Department of Economics and Ontario Ministry of Finance
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Macroeconomic fluctuations, Welfare, Foreign aid, Consumption smoothing

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The Third Dimension of Financialization: Electronification, Intraday Institutional Trading, and Commodity Market Quality

WBS Finance Group Research Paper No. 242
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 10 Nov 2017
Vikas Raman, Michel A. Robe and Pradeep K. Yadav
Lancaster University - Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Oklahoma Price College of Business
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Financialization, Commodities, Competition, Intraday activity, Liquidity, Pricing efficiency, HFT

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Foreign Central Bank Activities in U.S. Futures Markets

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Foreign Central Bank Activities in U.S. Futures Markets

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 12 Sep 2014
Raymond P.H. Fishe, Michel A. Robe and Aaron Smith
University of Richmond - E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of California, Davis - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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Central Banks, Reserve management, Interest-rate derivatives, Hedging, Speculation, Financial crisis, Synchronized trading

Foreign Central Bank Activities in U.S. Futures Markets

Journal of Futures Markets, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 3-29, January 2016
Posted: 09 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2016
Raymond P.H. Fishe, Michel A. Robe and Aaron Smith
University of Richmond - E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of California, Davis - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

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Central Banks, Reserve management, Interest-rate derivatives, Hedging, Speculation, Financial crisis, Synchronized trading

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Counterpart Funds and the Foreign Aid Procyclicality Puzzle

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 16 Jan 2015
Stephane Pallage and Michel A. Robe
University of Quebec at Montreal - Department of Economics and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Foreign aid, Adverse selection, Contracts, Matching grants, Capital flows, Business cycles

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Incorporating Uncertainty Into USDA Commodity Price Forecasts

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Incorporating Uncertainty Into USDA Commodity Price Forecasts

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 07 Jul 2019
Michael Adjemian, Valentina Bruno and Michel A. Robe
University of Georgia - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, American University - Department of Finance and Real Estate and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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USDA, forecasting, derivatives markets, option-implied volatility, WASDE, situation and outlook, grains and oilseeds

Incorporating Uncertainty into Usda Commodity Price Forecasts

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 102, Issue 2, pp. 696-712, 2020
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 24 Mar 2020
Michael Adjemian, Valentina G. Bruno and Michel A. Robe
University of Georgia - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, American University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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derivatives markets, forecasting, grains, option‐implied volatility, situation and outlook, USDA, WASDE

Incorporating Uncertainty into USDA Commodity Price Forecasts

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 06 Dec 2019
Michael Adjemian, Valentina Bruno and Michel A. Robe
University of Georgia - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, American University - Department of Finance and Real Estate and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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USDA, forecasting, derivatives markets, option-implied volatility, situation and outlook, WASDE, grains

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Counterpart Funding Requirements and the Foreign Aid Procyclicality Puzzle

Oxford Review of Public Policy, Vol. 31, No. 3-4, pp. 462-80, Fall-Winter 2015
Posted: 11 Feb 2016
Stephane Pallage and Michel A. Robe
University of Quebec at Montreal - Department of Economics and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Foreign aid, Adverse selection, Contracts, Counterpart funding requirements, Matching grants, Capital flows, Business cycles

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Physical Markets, Paper Markets and the WTI-Brent Spread

Energy Journal, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2013
Posted: 07 Oct 2013
Bahattin Buyuksahin, Thomas K Lee, James T. Moser and Michel A. Robe
CoMeX Consulting and Advising, Energy Information Administration - US DOE, American University - Kogod School of Business and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Crude Oil, Brent, WTI, LLS, Spread, Fundamentals, Inventories, Cushing, Paper Markets, Commodity Index Trading (CIT)

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OPEC 'Fair Price' Pronouncements and the Market Price of Crude Oil

Energy Journal, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2013
Posted: 17 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2013
Celso Brunetti, Bahattin Buyuksahin, Michel A. Robe and Kirsten R. Soneson
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, CoMeX Consulting and Advising, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

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Crude oil, OPEC, Fair price, Market price, Event study, Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ADL)

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Commodities and Equities: Ever a 'Market of One'?

Journal of Alternative Investments, Vol. 12, No. 3, Winter 2010
Posted: 14 Nov 2009
Bahattin Buyuksahin, Michael S. Haigh and Michel A. Robe
CoMeX Consulting and Advising, Standard Chartered Bank and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Commodity, Equity, DCC, Cointegration, Extreme events

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The Potential of Foreign Aid as Insurance

IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 53, No. 4, October 2006
Posted: 18 Jul 2006
Stephane Pallage, Michel A. Robe and Catherine Berube
University of Quebec at Montreal - Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ontario Ministry of Finance

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Macroeconomic fluctuations, Welfare, Foreign aid, Consumption smoothing

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The Impact of Illegal Insider Trading in Dealer and Specialist Markets: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Journal of Financial Economics, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 461-88, March 2004
Posted: 29 Aug 2003
Raymond P.H. Fishe and Michel A. Robe
University of Richmond - E. Claiborne Robins School of Business and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Insider Trading, Depth, Liquidity, Specialist and Dealer Markets

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On the Welfare Cost of Economic Fluctuations in Developing Countries

International Economic Review, Vol. 44, No. 2, May 2003
Posted: 13 Sep 2002
Michel A. Robe and Stephane Pallage
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Quebec at Montreal - Department of Economics

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Volatility, Welfare Cost, Business Cycles, Developing Countries, Africa

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What Can We Learn from Simulating a Standard Agency Model?

Economics Letters, Vol. 73, No. 2, November 1, 2001
Posted: 07 Jan 2002
Michel A. Robe
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Moral Hazard, Numerical Analysis, Reduced-Form Equation, Limited Liability, Performance target

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Dividend Signaling Costs: Coarse vs. Separating Equilibria

Posted: 26 Aug 1999
Michel A. Robe
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Optimal Versus Traditional Securities Under Moral Hazard

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 34, No. 2, June, 1999
Posted: 22 Mar 1999 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2009
Michel A. Robe
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Foreign Aid and the Business Cycle

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Foreign Aid and the Business Cycle

CREFE Research Paper No. 63
Posted: 19 Sep 1998
Michel A. Robe and Stephane Pallage
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Quebec at Montreal - Department of Economics

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Foreign Aid and the Business Cycle

Review of International Economics, Vol. 9, No. 4, November 2001
Posted: 18 Jan 2002
Michel A. Robe and Stephane Pallage
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Quebec at Montreal - Department of Economics

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Foreign aid, business cycles, volatility, empirical regularities