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affects its policy decision. We show that the learning process gives rise to coordination motives among speculators leading to …
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. Coordination among speculators is sometimes desirable for price informativeness and investment efficiency, but speculators … coordination among speculators and study policy measures that affect patterns of coordination to improve price informativeness and …
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This paper reports results from an experiment studying how fines, leniency programs and reward schemes for whistleblowers affect cartel formation and prices. Antitrust without leniency reduces cartel formation, but increases cartel prices: subjects use costly fines as (altruistic) punishments....
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The paper reviews and evaluates in a non-technical manner the economic and political arguments for and against the two fiscal convergence criteria written into the Treaty of Maastricht and its Protocols. In order to qualify for full membership in Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), net general...
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We analyse the effect of trade spillovers and of international coordination on currency crises. To do this, we present … and the larger the set of multiple equilibria. Coordination decreases the possibility of simultaneous self …-fulfilling speculative crises in the region and reduces the set of multiple equilibria. However, regional coordination, even though welfare …
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This paper investigates the desirability of international fiscal policy coordination in the presence of a domestic … deficits. International coordination can exacerbate this bias, and thus reduce social welfare at home and abroad. The reason is … that international coordination enables the domestic and foreign governments to form a coalition that excludes future …
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coordination. This paper examines these fluctuations from a European perspective and suggests five conclusions. First …
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the literature has taken since. As a central challenge, I identify the need to provide a formal theory of the firm in …
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, which must be adapted to a privately observed shock and coordinated with other tasks. Coordination requires that agents pay … leadership naturally arise as a response to organizational trade-offs between coordination and adaptation. At the optimum, all …
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This paper proposes a simple macroeconomic model with staggered investment decisions. The expected return from investing depends on demand expectations, which are pinned down by fundamentals and history. Owing to an aggregate demand externality, investment subsidies can improve welfare in this...
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