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We investigate the relationship between inflation and price variation using highly disaggregated, weekly price data for … rates of price change and price dispersion, both at the level of individual products and product groups. However, we find no … correlation between the rates of price change and price variability. Together with results from similar studies, Tommasi (1993 …
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In theory, the incidence of a tax should be independent of which side of the market it is levied on. This principle of …
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equilibrium, capacities should correspond to the Cournot prediction. In the experimental data, given capacities, observed price … setting behavior is in general consistent with the theory. Capacities converge above the Cournot level. Sellers rarely manage …
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possibility is to adopt restrictions from economic theory. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the implications of the …
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On the basis of a real high stakes insurance experiment with small probabilities of losses, we demonstrate that concern is a more important driver of WTP for insurance than subjective probability estimates when there is ambiguity surrounding the estimate. Concern is still important when...
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In this paper we present an experiment on the false consensus effect. Unlike previous experiments, we provide monetary incentives for revealing the actual estimation of others' behavior. In each session and round sixteen subjects make a choice between two options simultaneously. Then they...
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Alternative modeling strategies for specifying subset VAR models are considered. It is shown that under certain conditions a testing procedure based on t-ratios is equivalent to sequentially eliminating lags that lead to the largest improvement in a prespecified model selection criterion. A...
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In this article we model the log of the U.S. and the U.K. real oil prices in terms of fractionally integrated processes with a mean shift. We use different versions of the tests of Robinson (1994), which have standard null and local limit distributions. The results indicate that if we model the...
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A new kind of mixture autoregressive model with GARCH errors is introduced and applied to the U.S. short-term interest rate. According to the diagnostic tests developed in the paper and further informal checks the model is capable of capturing both of the typical characteristics of the...
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