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Characterization of Private and Public Information

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Information Dissemination in Currency Crises

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems ((LNE,volume 527))

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Abstract

Although there are several ways to characterize different forms of information, one of the commonest classification systems is to differentiate between private and public information (respectively “signals”). In the context to be analyzed here, both types of signals inform about the unknown fundamental state, i.e. about the index that comprises the relevant economic fundamentals of the respective country.

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Metz, C.E. (2003). Characterization of Private and Public Information. In: Information Dissemination in Currency Crises. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 527. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55471-1_8

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