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strongly to predictable marginal cost changes, as expected from the Mankiw and Reis (2002) Sticky Information Model. We �nd …
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Information economics has emerged as the primary theoretical lens for framing financing decisions in firm R …&D investment. Successful outcomes of R&D projects are either ex-ante impossible to predict or the information is asymmetrically … value of their R&D activities and as a result reduce the information deficits that block the availability of external …
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matching model with no commitment and no enforcement. An intrinsically worthless but perfectly durable object called a ‘note …
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information flow. When idiosyncratic conditions are more variable or more important than aggregate conditions, firms pay more …
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In this paper we discuss the role of the cross-sectional heterogeneity of beliefs in the context of understanding and assessing macroeconomic vulnerability. Emphasis lies on the potential of changing levels of disagreement in expectations to influence the propensity of the economy to switch...
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We study credible information transmission by a benevolent Central Bank. We consider two possibilities: direct … revelation through an announcement, versus indirect information transmission through monetary policy. These two ways of … transmitting information have very different consequences. Since the objectives of the Central Bank and those of individual …
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information flow. When idiosyncratic conditions are more variable or more important than aggregate conditions, firms pay more …
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agents cannot process all available information, but they can choose which exact pieces of information to attend to. Several … important results in economics have been built around imperfect information. Nowadays, many more forms of information than ever … before are available due to new technologies, and yet we are able to digest little of it. Which form of imperfect information …
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strongly to predictable marginal cost changes, as expected from the Mankiw and Reis (2002) Sticky Information Model. We find …
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Embedding the efficient bargaining model into the Hall (1988) approach for estimating price-cost margins shows that both imperfections in the product and labor markets generate a wedge between factor elasticities in the production function and their corresponding shares in revenue. This article...
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