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We study a stylized theory of the volatility reduction in the U.S. after 1984 - the Great Moderation - which attributes part of the stabilization to less volatile shocks and another part to more difficult inference on the part of Bayesian households attempting to learn the latent state of the...
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-term contracts sacrificing managerial selection may be optimal at early stages of economic development and when access to information …
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information is endogenous, and jointly determined with policy opinions. We therefore estimate a causal effect of information, with … effect of better information on the willingness to accept reforms that reduce the generosity of the pension system. Finally … we do not find that exposure to media coverage of pension issues significantly improves information, possibly because …
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that affects corporations’ cash holdings. Leaning on the literature on stock price feedback to firm fundamentals, we …
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-based incentives elicit not only productive effort, but also costly information manipulation. We analyze the tradeoffs involved in …
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Under Medicare Part D, senior citizens choose prescription drug insurance offred by numerous private insurers. We examine non-poor enrollees' actions in 2006 and 2007 using panel data. Our sample reduced overspending by $298 on average, with gains by 81% of them. The greatest improvements were...
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Ranking have become increasingly popular on markets for study programs, restaurants, wines, cars, etc. This paper analyses the welfare implication of such rankings. Consumers have to make a choice between two goods of unknown quality with exogenous presence or absence of an informative ranking....
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This paper surveys the research in the past decade on imperfect information models of aggregate supply and the Phillips … curve. This new work has emphasized that information is dispersed and disseminates slowly across a population of agents who … strategically interact in their use of information. We discuss the foundations on which models of aggregate supply rest, as well as …
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Recent evidence suggests that individuals do not always take notice of tax attributes when making their choices. This paper focuses on the case of tax relief for charitable contributions. Although a fully rational donor should view a matched payment to the receiving charity and a tax rebate of...
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We survey theoretical developments in the literature on the limits of arbitrage. This literature investigates how costs faced by arbitrageurs can prevent them from eliminating mispricings and providing liquidity to other investors. Research in this area is currently evolving into a broader...
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