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This paper evaluates the sources of transitory market power in the market for personal computers (PCs) during the late 1980's. Our analysis is motivated by the coexistence of low entry barriers into the PC industry and high rates of innovative investment by a small number of PC manufacturers. We...
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mix much akin to the theory of optimal portfolio composition. It is the job of a firm's marketing department to put …This paper identifies a cost of using the price system and from that develops a general theory of allocation. The … theory explains why a buyer's stochastic purchasing behavior matters to a seller. This leads to a theory of optimal customer …
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We document the consequences of real exchange rate movements for the employment, hours, and hourly earnings of workers in manufacturing industries across individual states. Exchange rates have statistically significant wage and employment implications in these local labor markets. The importance...
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Aging populations in advanced economies are placing ever-increasing demands on government spending in the form of old-age benefits. Economies that have promised substantially more benefits than they have made provision to finance are heading into a prolonged era of fiscal stress. Unresolved...
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conclusive evidence that they are positive, as theory predicts. This paper shows that the lack of empirical evidence is … consistent with theory if countries are in transition to FDI openness. Anticipated welfare gains lead to temporary declines in … reconciliation of theory and evidence is accomplished with a multicountry dynamic general equilibrium model parameterized with data …
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-market economies. The chapter discusses the history, macroeconomic effects, theory, practice, and future of inflation targeting …
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strives to partly redress this lacuna on the theory side by introducing three novel political economy mechanisms with …
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cultural heterogeneity, the world's geographical fragmentation by ethic and religious traits, at any given time. Finally, the …
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The 1990's dealt a blow to traditional Heckscher-Ohlin analysis of the relationship between trade and income inequality, as it became clear that rising inequality in low- income countries and other features of the data were inconsistent with that model. As a result, economists moved away from...
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of the largest 50 economies in the world, a reduction in entry costs all the way to the U.S. level leads to an average …
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