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In markets with imperfect information and heterogeneity, the information technology affects the rate at which agents meet, which in turn affects the distribution of production technologies across firms. We show that in models for such markets there are typically multiple equilibria because...
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integration and price convergence in international markets. Using a panel data set of car prices we examine how the process of … integration has affected cross-country price dispersion in Europe. We find surprisingly strong evidence of convergence towards …
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The Zollverein was arguably the most important free-trade agreement of the 19th century. This paper investigates the economic impact of the Zollverein on trade in Germany. Although 1834 is the official date of the Zollverein's establishment, member states in fact joined in a non-random sequence...
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In this paper we estimate a New-Keynesian DSGE model with heterogeneity in price and wage setting behavior. In a recent … study, Coibion and Gorodnichenko (2011) develop a DSGE model, in which firms follow four different types of price setting … heterogeneity in wage rigidity, such as the persistence in price and the wage inflation, which a standard New Keynesian model with …
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This Paper analyses the effect of a possible takeover on information flows and on the terms of trade in business relationships. We consider a long-term relationship between a firm and a privately-informed stakeholder, a buyer for example. In our model, takeovers both increase the surplus from...
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This Paper characterizes the integration patterns of international currency unions (such as the CFA Franc zone and the East Caribbean Currency Area). We empirically explore different features of currency unions, and compare them both to countries with sovereign monies, and to regions within...
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constant markups. The differences are important quantitatively; price differences in Hungarian exports between Germany and the …
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of both data and estimation. We find that expected risk-free rates vary dramatically over time, unlike short interest …
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This Paper develops a simple but general methodology to estimate the expected intertemporal marginal rate of substitution or ‘EMRS’, using only data on asset prices and returns. Our empirical strategy is general, and allows the EMRS to vary arbitrarily over time. A novel feature of our...
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We propose that analysis of purchasing power parity (PPP) and the law of one price (LOOP) should explicitly take into … method to identify commodity points. Price adjustment is treated as a non-linear process, and a threshold autoregression (TAR … outside the thresholds might imply half-lives of price deviations measured in months rather than years, and the thresholds …
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