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We examine how much of the observed wage dispersion among similar workers can be explained as a consequence of a lack of coordination among employers. To do this, we construct a directed search model with homogenous workers but where firms can create either good or bad jobs, aimed at either...
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We study the implementation of constrained-efficient allocations in labour markets where a basic coordination problem leads to an equilibrium matching function. We argue that these allocations can be achieved in equilibrium if wages are determined by ex post bidding. This holds true even in...
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This paper explores the trade-off between the short-term benefits of false quality advertisements against the longer term costs of reputation damage. A directed search model is constructed in which submarkets are created by the advertisements and reputations of sellers. A reputation system links...
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simple experimental market do not lose their commitment power in the presence of noise. The present note shows that it is the …
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We review the recent work on interest rate setting, which emphasizes the desirability of designing policy to ensure stability under private agent learning. Appropriately designed expectations based rules can yield optimal rational expectations equilibria that are both determinate and stable...
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In a seminal paper Bagwell (1995) claims that the first mover advantage, i.e. the strategic benefit of committing oneself to an action before others can do, vanishes completely if this action is only imperfectly observed by second movers. In our paper we report on an experimental test of this...
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Using a closed-economy model, Jensen (2002) and Walsh (2003), have, respectively shown that a policy regime that optimally targets nominal income growth (NIT) or the change in the output gap (SLT) outperforms a regime that targets inflation, because NIT and SLT induce more inertia in the actions...
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¡°government-bank-firm¡±, we show that the government¡¯s non-commitment and banking bailout cause inefficiency in the contact … relationship. Moreover, after introducing collusion possibility, non-commitment of the government increases the stakes, or bribes … other equilibrium where she sticks to her commitment and excludes collusion from the contract relationship. Here, collusion …
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We study the value of commitment in contests and tournaments when there are costs for the follower to observe the … itself. We show that this distinction matters significantly: When observation is costly, the value of commitment vanishes … tournaments, the value of commitment is preserved completely, provided that the observation costs are sufficiently small. …
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. While temptation is commonly understood to give rise to a demand for commitment, it is shown that `temptation by future …
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