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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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-term forecasts, due to constant elasticity to gross domestic product these models assume. In this paper we argue that traffic … maturity results from decreasing marginal utility of transport. The elasticity of individual mobility with respect to the … revenue tends to decrease when the level of mobility increases. In order to find evidences of decreasing elasticity we analyse …
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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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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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A game theoretic approach to the theory of money and financial institution is given utilizing both the strategic and coalitional forms for describing the economy. The economy is first modeled as a strategic market game, then the strategic form is used to calculate several cooperative forms that...
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The paper, prepared for a Roundtable on Major Economic Problems in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., discusses some aspects of price theory ñ in particular, the theory of general equilibrium -ñ which may offer some theoretical insights about the economic problems to be encountered during the...
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restricted by federal and state laws from expanding across state lines. We examine whether bank merger prices were higher or … well as those that may provide some diversification benefits, are offered higher prices.> We find that changes in the … regulatory environment had a significant impact on bank merger activities in general, and bank merger prices in particular. For …
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across the states for more timely evidence of a change in this relationship. We find some evidence that the elasticity of …
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