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Oligopolistic Pricing and the Effects of Aggregate Demand on Economic Activity
Rotemberg, Julio J. - 1989
We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model in which the typical industry colludes by threatening to punish deviations from an implicitly agreed upon pricing path. We argue that models of this type explain better than do competitive models the way in which the economy responds to aggregate...
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The Value of Pharmacy Benefit Management
Mulligan, Casey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In theory, equilibrium profits for drug patent holders would not involve significant restraints on production and … through insurance plans. This paper provides a quantitative model consistent with the theory and evidence in which pharmacy … benefit management on behalf of insurance plans serves these and other purposes in both monopoly and oligopoly provider …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334448
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A Supergame-Theoretic Model of Business Cycles and Price Wars During Booms
Rotemberg, Julio J. - 1984
the collusive outcome is often greater when demand is high. To moderate this temptation,the optimizing oligopoly reduces … support our theory. (J.E.L. Classification numbers:020, 130, 610) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477677
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Models of Currency Crises with Self-Fulfilling Features
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1995
The discomfort a government suffers from speculation against its currency determines the strategic incentives of speculators and the scope for multiple currency-market equilibria. After describing an illustrative model in which high unemployment may cause an exchange- rate crisis with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473585
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Social security, retirement, and the single-mindedness of the electorate
Mulligan, Casey B. (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002052075
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Induced Retirement, Social Security, and the Pyramid Mirage
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2000
Does Social Security redistribute across cohorts? Or is it a program for purchasing the jobs' of the elderly? I formalize both models, showing how they have some predictions in common the most important of which is that generational accounts have the appearance of a pyramid scheme.' I also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471088
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Human Capital, Heterogeneity, and Estimated Degrees of Intergenerational Mobility
Han, Song - 2000
Some of the important implications of the parental investment model of intergenerational mobility have been derived under the assumption that parental income is the main source of heterogeneity. We explicitly model the variability and inheritability of innate' earnings ability and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471089
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A Heuristic Method for Extracting Smooth Trends from Economic Time Series
Rotemberg, Julio J. - 1999
This paper proposes a method for separating economic time series into a smooth component whose mean varies over time (the trend') and a stationary component (the cycle'). The aim is to make the trends as smooth as possible while also producing cycles with plausible properties. While the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471343
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New Directions for Stochastic Open Economy Models
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999
The paper develops a simple stochastic new open economy macroeconomic model based on sticky nominal wages. Explicit solution of the wage-setting problem under uncertainty allows one to analyze the effects of the monetary regime on welfare, expected output, and the expected terms of trade....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471471
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EMU : Ready, or Not?
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999
In this paper I focus on two specific hazard areas in the transition from Stage Two to Stage Three of European economic and monetary union (EMU), as well as on some key problems of Stage Three that EMU's monetary and fiscal structures appear ill-prepared to handle. The transitional hazards are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471509