WIFO-Monatsberichte (monthly reports)

The WIFO-Monatsberichte (monthly reports) contain research results and publications by WIFO staff on national and international economic developments based on sound economic analyses. Additionally, important key figures on the international and Austrian economic situation are published in the WIFO-Monatsberichte.

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Jesús Crespo Cuaresma (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Claudia Kemfert (German Institute for Economic Research)
Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (University of Vienna)
Jens Südekum (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Andrea Weber (Central European University)

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Kenneth J. Arrow
Knowledge, Belief and the Economic System
WIFO-Monatsberichte, 2013, 86(12), pp.943-951
 
Prices, according to one of the fundamental economic assumptions, contain all the information needed by market participants to make decisions. But this hypothesis does not withstand a reality check – a lot of very necessary information is not passed on in the price system. The prices of stocks immediately before the crash of a stock market bubble say very little about their true worth. For a perfect market system mar-kets for all products and for all points in time are needed. These markets do not always exist and some-times cannot exist – for example markets for products not yet in existence.
Keywords:Arrow Nobelpreisträger
Research group:Macroeconomics and Public Finance
Language:English

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