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Persuading skeptics and reaffirming believers

Alonso, Ricardo; Câmara, Odilon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

In a world where rational individuals may hold different prior beliefs, a sender can influence the behavior of a receiver by controlling the informativeness of a signal. We characterize the set of distributions of posterior beliefs that can be induced by a signal, and provide necessary and...

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Two minds, three ways: dual system and dual process models in consumer psychology

Samson, Alain; Voyer, Benjamin G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Dual system and dual process views of the human mind have contrasted automatic, fast, and non-conscious with controlled, slow, and conscious thinking. This paper integrates duality models from the perspective of consumer psychology by identifying three relevant theoretical strands: Persuasion...

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Equilibrium bids in sponsored search auctions: theory and evidence

Borgers, Tilman; Cox, Ingemar; Pesendorfer, Martin; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper presents a game theoretic analysis of the generalized second-price auction that the company Overture operated in 2004 to sell sponsored search listings on search engines. We construct a model that embodies few prior assumptions about parameters, and we present results that indicate...

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Heterogeneous agglomeration

Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo; Strange, William C. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Many prior treatments of agglomeration either explicitly or implicitly suppose that all industries agglomerate for the … approach is the extrapolation of the agglomeration experience of one key sector or cluster to the larger economy. Another is … the pooling of data to look at common tendencies in agglomeration. This paper uses UK establishment level data on …

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The urban wage growth premium: sorting or learning?

D'Costa, Sabine; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper is concerned with the urban wage premium and addresses two central issues about which the field has not yet reached a consensus. First, the extent to which sorting of high ability individuals into urban areas explains the urban wage premium. Second, whether workers receive this wage...

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Investigating agglomeration economies in a panel of European cities and regions

Artis, Michael; Curran, Declan; Sensier, Marianne - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper investigates agglomeration economies in an annual panel of NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 city regions across France … over time. We uncover evidence of long run agglomeration effects of around 6% for NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 city regions for the …

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The economics of density: evidence from the Berlin wall

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Redding, Stephen J.; Sturm, Daniel; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper develops a quantitative model of city structure to separate agglomeration forces, dispersion forces and …

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From Russia with love: the impact of relocated firms on incumbent survival

Falck, Oliver; Guenther, Christina; Heblich, Stephan; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...

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The urban wage growth premium: sorting or learning?

D'Costa, Sabine; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper is concerned with the urban wage premium and addresses two central issues about which the field has not yet reached a consensus: first, the extent to which sorting of high ability individuals into urban areas explains the urban wage premium and second, whether workers receive this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126674

City of dreams

De la Roca, Jorge; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Higher ability workers benefit more from bigger cities while housing costs there are higher for everyone, and yet there is little sorting on ability. A possible explanation is that young individuals have an imperfect assessment of their ability, and, when they learn about it, early decisions...

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