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An acceleration in the growth of communications bandwidth in use and a rapid reduction in bandwidth prices have not accompanied the U.S. economy’s strong performance in the second half of the 1990s. Overall U.S. bandwidth in use has grown robustly throughout the 1990s, but growth has not...
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In the deliberations of scholars, policy analysts, and policy makers, television has exceptional power and influence. Yet the historical record shows that television has not changed the economics of attention for large populations in the course of their daily lives. By the mid- 1920s, print...
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The distribution of the value of travel time savings (VTTS) is investigated employing various nonparametric techniques …
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. Money as a social representative of value, therefore, is introduced at the very beginning of Marx’s microeconomics. Marx …’s rejection of Ricardo’s interpretation of Say’s Law requires that money as a means of circulation and as a means of payment is … realisation of profits for the capitalist class as a whole requires money advances, which have to increase by means of rising …
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friction for a receipt system (fiat money) to lead to improved allocations in an otherwise frictionless Walrasian model. The … experiments. Some issues regarding the divisibility of money are also discussed. …
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money growth might be an important determinant of cyclical developments in real GDP beyond effects already captured by short … properties are also maintained when looking at a broader set of non-monetary indicator variables. Narrow money therefore seems …. As a result, once the information from narrow money is taken into account, what matters more for the forecast performance …
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This paper studies the gain from using money as an indicator when monetary policy in made under data uncertainty. We … state of the economy. Money reveals some of the private sector’s information to the policymaker, especially if there is a … forward looking element in money demand. We show that observing money can considerably reduce the loss that is due to …
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Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem shows that transitive social preference is impossible. This note shows that in the general case of exchange, social preference need not be transitive. Indeed, it shows that social preference must be non-transitive to allow gainful exchange to maximize social...
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money has nothing to do with traded output, but everything to do with storing value. But now a new trade theory takes over … monetary theory, by reducing money into a mere tool of trade, as just a means of payment. It takes over theory of exchange … arbitrage, and payments through seigniorage (by creating and issuing money). Suddenly economics studies economy rather than …
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