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Global games of regime change -- that is, coordination games of incomplete information in which a status quo is …
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We show that inefficiencies from having separate markets to correct an environmental externality are significantly mitigated when firms participate in an integrated product market. Firms take into account the distribution of externality prices and reallocate output from markets with high prices...
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We compare how well agents aggregate information in two repeated social learning environments. In the first setting agents have access to a public data set. In the second they have access to the same data, and also to the past actions of others. Despite the fact that actions contain no...
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We explore a model of non-Bayesian information aggregation in networks. Agents non-cooperatively choose among Friedkin-Johnsen type aggregation rules to maximize payoffs. The DeGroot rule is chosen in equilibrium if and only if there is noiseless information transmission...leading to consensus....
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behavior in various different situations, including games of common interest, coordination, asset trading and bargaining …
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-stakes environment. For most others, improved coordination implies a drastic decline in monetary winnings. Prior to playing the social …
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This paper examines issues in the current debate over coordination between fiscal and monetary policies. Section I1 … uses the traditional targets-instruments approach to assess the potential gains from greater coordination. Since greater … coordination is often equated with looser money and tighter fiscal policy, two econometric models of the economy are used to …
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General medical care in the United States has historically been provided by physicians who care for their patients in both ambulatory and hospital settings. Care is now increasingly divided between physicians specializing in hospital care (hospitalists) and ambulatory-based care primary care...
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coordination costs fell during this period. We then propose a "hierarchical production function" in which output is the product of … coordination costs fell broadly and steadily during this period, so that hiring one's first associate leveraged a partner's skill …
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need for policy coordination: the specific choice of monetary policy limits the set of fiscal policies consistent with …
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