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We consider the role of asymmetric information on the emergence of collusion between criminals and enforcers, in the framework proposed by Bowles and Garoupa (1997) and Polinsky and Shavell (2001). Our Paper proposes that the optimal criminal sanction for the underlying offense is not...
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Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search requirements are violated. We analyze the effect of sanctions on the ensuing job quality, notably on wage rates and hours worked, and we examine how often a sanction leads to a lower...
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correlated learning may render it optimal to enter markets sequentially – an investment in market A is only followed by entry in …, we identify correlated learning across markets beyond alternative explanations as a key driver of gradualism in the …
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We propose a simple model of optimal stopping where the economic environment changes as a result of learning. A primary … idiosyncratic productivity distribution across firms. For the first model, we show that learning leads to higher wage demands by the … workers. In the second model, we give sufficient conditions so that learning leads to higher wage demands for optimistic …
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uncertainty, that there is a learning cost associated with interest rate reversals. A policy that frequently reverses the interest … monetary policy internalizes this learning cost and therefore has a lower number of interest rate reversals. The incentive to …
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Why are some cities specialized and others diversified? What are the advantages and disadvantages of urban specialization and diversity? To what extent does the structure of cities, and the activities of firms and people in them, change over time? How does the sectoral composition of cities...
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A central tenet of inflation targeting is that establishing and maintaining well-anchored inflation expectations are essential. In this paper, we reexamine the role of key elements of the inflation targeting framework towards this end, in the context of an economy where economic agents have an...
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This paper analyses a situation where market designers create new trading platforms and traders learn to select among them. We ask whether 'Walrasian' platforms, leading to market-clearing trading outcomes, will dominate the market in the long run. If several market designers are competing, we...
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This Paper considers the financing of a research project under uncertainty about the time of completion and the probability of eventual success. The uncertainty about future success diminishes gradually with the arrival of additional funding. The entrepreneur controls the funds and can divert...
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We introduce learning into a Hotelling model of a non-renewable resource market. By combining learning and scarcity we … add significantly to the dynamics implied by learning and substantially enhance the volatility of commodity prices. In our … learning model we show how a self confirming equilibrium exists but is not constant over time. As scarcity increases the SCE …
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