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Farhi, Emmanuel - 2009

expected exchange rate depreciations (appreciations) for high (low) interest rate currencies, suggesting that disaster risk is … priced in currency markets. To study the price of disaster risk, we propose a simple structural model that includes both … Gaussian and disaster risk and can be estimated even in samples that do not contain disasters. Estimating the model over the …

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Contracts and Money

Jovanovic, Boyan - 1996

We analyze the contractual relation between workers and their employers when there is nominal risk. The key feature of … eliminate all nominal risk for the parties (by fully indexing the terms of the contracts to the price level) but they would be …

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Dynamic Incentive Contracts Under Parameter Uncertainty

Prat, Julien - 2010

Commitment is therefore more valuable when quality is known more precisely. Incentives then are easier to provide because the agent has less room to manipulate the beliefs of the principal. Moreover, in contrast to results under one-period commitment, wage volatility declines as experience...

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Uncertainty and Growth Disasters

Jovanovic, Boyan - 2020

This paper documents several facts on the real effects of economic uncertainty. First, higher uncertainty is associated with a more dispersed distribution of output growth. Second, the relation is highly asymmetric: A rise in uncertainty is associated with a sharp decline in the lower tail of...

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Trading on Sunspots

Jovanovic, Boyan - 2014

In a model with multiple Pareto-ranked equilibria we add trade in assets that pay based on the realization of a sunspot. Asset trading restricts the equilibrium set in a way that raises welfare by eliminating equilibria with a high likelihood of disasters. When the probability of a disaster is...

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Speculative growth : hints from the US economy

Caballero, Ricardo J. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]. - Rev

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A Short Note on Aggregating Productivity

Baqaee, David - 2019

This paper discusses two simple decompositions for aggregate productivity analysis in the presence of distortions and in general equilibrium. The first is a generalization of Baqaee and Farhi (2017) and the second is due to Petrin and Levinsohn (2012). In the process, we propose a new...

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The Darwinian Returns to Scale

Baqaee, David - 2020

How does an increase in the size of the market due to fertility, immigration, or trade integration, affect welfare and real GDP? We study this question using a model with heterogeneous firms, fixed costs, and monopolistic competition. We decompose the change in welfare into changes in technical...

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Entry vs. Rents

Baqaee, David - 2020

A tension between entry and rents lies at the core of a general theory of aggregation with scale effects. This paper …

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Supply and Demand in Disaggregated Keynesian Economies with an Application to the Covid-19 Crisis

Baqaee, David - 2020

We study supply and demand shocks in a general disaggregated model with multiple sectors, multiple factors, input-output linkages, downward nominal wage rigidities, credit-constraints, and a zero lower bound. We use the model to understand how the Covid-19 crisis, an omnibus of supply and demand...

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