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A model of the dynamically interrelated demand for capital and labor is specified and estimated. The estimates are of … slow rates of adjustment displayed in other, related estimates of the demand for capital. Because adjustment is estimated …
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Excessive layoffs in bad times and excessive quits in good times both stem from the same weakness in practical employment arrangements: the specific nature of worker-firm relations creates a situation of bilateral monopoly. Institutions which have arisen to avert the associated inefficiency...
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In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions for an asset substitution matrix to be symmetric for all distributions of rates of return are derived. It is found that symmetry in this context is essentially equivalent to the proposition that the von Neumann-Morgenstern utility function...
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Although there have been a large number of empirical studies of the demand for international reserves, there have not … demand function trigger a process of adjustment. This paper presents new evidence which suggests that central banks do have a … rapid. In addition, an economic theory of the speed of adjustment is presented and tested. The evidence suggests that …
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Some additional evidence on the comparative effect of income, regulation, and other variables on the demand for lawyers … demand for lawyers. Section I presents a theoretical model of the demand for and supply of lawyers. The empirical … investment in legal education. Section, presents other evidence of an excess demand for lawyers and offers several explanations …
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Aggregate housing demand shocks are an important source of house price fluctuations in the standard macroeconomic …-rent puzzle"). We build a tractable heterogeneous-agent model that provides a microeconomic foundation for housing demand shocks …
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From its inception, demand estimation has faced the problem of "many prices." This paper provides estimators of average … demand and associated bounds on exact consumer surplus when there are many prices in cross-section or panel data. For cross … "zeros problem" of demand. For panel data we provide bias corrected, ridge regularized estimators of average coefficients and …
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Can measured risk attitudes and associated structural models predict insurance demand? In an experiment (n = 1,730), we … parameterize seventeen common structural models (e.g., expected utility, cumulative prospect theory). Subjects also make twelve …
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A recent literature considers the identification of heterogeneous demand and supply models via "quasi … demand when one has "micro data'' linking characteristics of individual consumers to their choices. Micro data provide a … panel structure allowing one to exploit variation across consumers within each market, where latent demand shocks are fixed …
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A positive correlation between insurance coverage and ex post risk can be an indicator for private information in insurance markets. However, this test fails if agents have heterogeneous risk attitudes. We propose a new test that conditions on unobserved types of individuals who differ in their...
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