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The purpose of this paper is to estimate elasticities of scale in the demand for money by firms using firm level panel data. In common with the recent literature, we use disaggregate data to overcome the identification problems in aggregate time series approaches. Our main dataset is a sample of...
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We present a new approach to the theory of imperfect competition and apply it to study price competition among differentiated products. The central result provides general conditions under which there exists a pure strategy price equilibrium for any number of firms producing any set of products....
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Trade protection remains a prominent feature of the current world economy and likely has significant effects on industries and macroeconomies. In this paper a particular type of policy, price supports, is analyzed in a two-country, dynamic, general equilibrium model. This model brings new...
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We examine the responses of prices and inflation to monetary shocks in an inventory-theoretic model of money demand. We …
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with sticky goods prices. If prices are held fixed for at least one year, risk aversion is high, and preferences are …
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large class of theories: (i) pricing-to-market, (ii) positive correlation of aggregate real export and import prices, (iii … elasticity of international trade flows. The behavior of quantities is shown to be on par with standard international business … cycle theories that, in contrast to our model, assume low intrinsic elasticity of substitution between domestic and foreign …
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This paper investigates the characteristics of stationary single-price equilibrium in a monetary random-matching model where agents can hold an arbitrary amount of divisible money and where production is costly. At such an equilibrium, agents’ money holdings are endogenously determined and...
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This paper studies two aspects of the behaviour of provincial relative prices in Spain: the relevance and the nature of … half point per year in the long-run), but deviations of relative prices from equilibrium can be very persistent. …
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The fiscal theory of the price level has challenged the conventional view that monetary factors drive prices and …
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in option prices. Consumption and dividends remain smooth, and the model is consistent with salient features of …
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