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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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This paper investigates whether job stability in western Germany shows any signs of decline and compares the findings to evidence for the US and the UK. Cross sectional data and calendar information from the German Socioeconomic Panel 1984-1997 are combined allowing to check possible influences...
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This article studies the design of optimal mechanisms to regulate entry in natural oligopoly markets, assuming the regulator is unable to control the behavior of firms once they are in the market. We adapt the Clarke-Groves mechanism, characterize the optimal mechanism that maximizes the...
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The authors develop and test a model to study the influence of inventory-on-hand and price-based reference points on … positive and negative deviations from category price expectations. The model is estimated on eleven product categories. The …
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The theory of industrial organization has experienced an impressive boom by using the methods of (non-cooperative) game … theory. The conclusions depend, however. crucially on subtle details of the market decision processes about which there exist … as in price determination. Since preemption means to decide before the random choice of cost parameters reflecting the …
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In a complete financial market every contingent claim can be hedged perfectly. In an incomplete market it is possible to stay on the safe side by superhedging. But such strategies may require a large amount of initial capital. Here we study the question what an investor can do who is unwilling...
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In this note the unobserved component approach underlying the software package SEATS is compared with the Beveridge-Nelson type of decomposition for seasonal time series. The main strength of the SEATS approach lies in the appealing model formulation and the careful specification and adjustment...
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We emphasize the importance of properly identifying the long-run relations underlying the monetary model of the exchange rate. The separate estimation of long-run money demands leads to a "structural" error correction equation which allows an interpretation of the various channels affecting the...
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