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This paper shows that price rigidity evolves in an economy populated by imperfectly rational agents who experiment with alternative rules of thumb. In the model, firms must set their prices in face of aggregate demand shocks. Their payoff depends on the level of aggregate demand, as well as on...
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’ liquidity constraints. We also demonstrate that increasing the rate of inflation can be welfare improving when credit rationing …
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This paper analyzes awards as a means of motivation prevalent in the scientific community, but so far neglected in the economic literature on incentives, and discusses their relationship to monetary compensation. Awards are better suited than performance pay to reward scientific tasks, which are...
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When providing public goods through voluntary contributions, a donor may introduce unilateral matching in order to … reduce underprovision of the public good and thus inefficiency. By itself, however, matching benefits the donor but harms the …
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favorable conditions for matching on the one hand, and for global collective decisions on the other hand. We establish …
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This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy with matching frictions, where workers and jobs are …. Search-matching externalities are amplified by the latter possibility and by the fact that some workers can simultaneously … receive a job offer from each region. The rest of the framework builds upon Moretti (2011). Increasing the matching …
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Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of …
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We investigate the possibility that a decision-maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an external device, e.g., a coin flip. In a series of experiments the participants often choose lotteries between allocations, which contradicts most theories of choice such as...
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inexperienced and can benefit from venture capital support. Only part of them succeed in matching with a venture capitalist while …
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model the principal-agent economy as a two-sided matching game and characterise the set of stable outcomes of this principal …-agent matching market. A simple mechanism to implement the set of stable outcomes is proposed. Finally, we put forward examples of …
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