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The paper explains how a country can fall into a 'low-skill, bad-job trap', in which workers acquire insufficient training and firms provide insufficient skilled vacancies. In particular, the paper argues that in countries where a large proportion of the workforce is unskilled, firms have little...
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month of the shock. The standard Calvo model and the standard sticky-information model can match this finding only under …
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how lack of information about one’s own type, but willingness to experiment to learn one’s type, may lead to short …
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We investigate the role of information spillovers (IS) in determining firms' labour adjustments. We test the … proposition that information on relevant state variables spills over through one firm's decision to affect those of other firms … influence than mean adjustments; second, smaller firms seem to rely more on external sources of information; third, the effects …
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This paper assesses the impact that a potential liberalization of sugar regimes in OECD countries could have on … then simultaneously estimate the impact that changes in domestic sugar prices have on regional wages and employment … depending on worker characteristics. Finally, we measure the impact on household income of a 10% increase in world sugar prices …
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inefficiency and stresses a need for institutional adjustments. We show that cooperation by water trade and the introduction of …
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We survey the recent literature on the role of information in mechanism design. First, we discuss an emerging … literature on the role of endogenous payoff and strategic information for the design and the efficiency of the mechanism. We … specifically consider information management in the form of acquisition of new information or disclosure of existing information …
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We develop a model of search among substitutes for the best combination of commodity variant and price, in which the structure of search costs can be manipulated by the suppliers of these variants, e.g. by joining an existing market or opening a new one. We analyse the subgame perfect equilibria...
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We analyse the impact of increased outside opportunities brought to consumers by access to a global market on local market performance under monopoly versus oligopoly. If consumers have to choose once where to shop we show that under all forms of organizing the local market, increased...
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This paper offers an informational explanation for asset price booms and crashes. If market fundamentals change, but the length of this process of change is unknown, market participants try to learn about it by observing market outcomes. This learning generates a boom and a crash, which we call...
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