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This paper provides evidence that learning about demand is an important driver of firms' dynamics. We present a simple … model with Bayesian learning in which firms are uncertain about their idiosyncratic demand parameter in each of the markets … their beliefs following a new demand shock, the younger they are. To test this learning mechanism, we make use of a specific …
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A competitive stock market is embedded into a neoclassical growth economy to analyze the interplay between the acquisition of information about firms, its partial revelation through stock prices, capital allocation and income. The stock market allows investors to share their costly private...
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We study the pricing of political uncertainty in a general equilibrium model of government policy choice. We find that political uncertainty commands a risk premium whose magnitude is larger in poorer economic conditions. Political uncertainty reduces the value of the implicit put protection...
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We analyze how changes in government policy affect stock prices. Our general equilibrium model features uncertainty about government policy and a government that has both economic and non-economic motives. The government tends to change its policy after performance downturns in the private...
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record. We also find investors face endogeneity that limits their learning about returns to scale and allows prolonged …
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internal labor markets, research and teaching performance turn out to be crucial determinants of promotion dynamics. Learning …
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This paper studies learning effects in new markets using a panel of relationships between Chilean wineries and …. The evidence suggests that learning about wineries is an important determinant of the positive age effects on FOB prices … but also that learning takes considerably long time. Policy implications are discussed. …
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The paper evaluates the performance of three popular monetary policy rules when the central bank is learning about the … level targeting performs best under learning and maintains the advantages of conducting policy under commitment. These …
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policy-makers' preferences, and rely on a perpetual learning technology to form expectations. We find that with learning … from those implied by rational expectations, even at long horizons. The presence of learning increases the sensitivity of … the policy-maker. In contrast, under learning, private inflation expectations follow a time-varying process and provide …
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This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the...
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