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The ECB's Policy, the Recovery Fund and the Importance of Trust : The Case of Greece
Dimakopoulou, Vasiliki; Economides, George; … - 2021
This paper, using a microfounded macroeconomic model that embeds the key features of the Greek economy, studies the efficacy of the various policy measures taken, at national and EU level, to cushion the economic effects of the pandemic shock. The paper attempts to give quantitative answers to...
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Exchange Rate and Inflation Under Weak Monetary Policy : Turkey Verifies Theory
Gürkaynak, Refet S.; Kısacıkoğlu, Burçin; Lee, … - 2022
experiment of the past decade, stemming from a belief of the government that higher interest rates cause higher inflation … eventually a negative coefficient on inflation in the policy rule. In such an environment, was the exchange rate still a random … walk? Was inflation anchored? Does the “standard model” suffice to explain the broad contours of macroeconomic outcomes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083478
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Imperfect Signals
Graetz, Georg - 2023
A pre-condition for employer learning is that signals at labor market entry do not fully reveal graduates’ productivity. I model various distinct sources of signal imperfection—such as noise and multi-dimensional types—and characterize their implications for the private return to skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357032
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Rotemberg and Imperfect Common Knowledge : A Solution Algorithm
Šauer, Radek - 2020
price level. In addition to determining the usual policy functions of output, inflation, and the nominal interest rate, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841148
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Uncertainty, Imperfect Information, and Expectation Formation Over the Firms's Life Cycle
Chen, Cheng - 2020
Using a long-panel dataset of Japanese firms that contains firm-level sales forecasts, we provide evidence on firm-level uncertainty and imperfect information over their life cycle. We find that firms make non-negligible and positively correlated forecast errors. However, they make more precise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826001
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Does Tax Policy Work When Consumers Have Imperfect Price Information? Theory and Evidence
Montag, Felix; Sagimuldina, Alina; Schnitzer, Monika - 2021
We investigate how the pass-through rate of commodity taxes depends on competition in a setting where consumers have imperfect information about prices. We use a theoretical search model that has two key predictions: First, the larger the number of price sensitive consumers, the higher the...
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History-Based Price Discrimination with Imperfect Information Accuracy and Asymmetric Market Shares
Colombo, Stefano; Graziano, Clara; Pignataro, Aldo - 2021
The paper considers a duopoly model in which firms inherited asymmetric market shares and history-based price discrimination is viable. However, firms can identify only a share of their own consumers depending to the degree of information accuracy. We derive the pricing strategies and we analyze...
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Insurance for Catastrophes - Indemnity vs. Parametric Insurance with Imperfect Information
Feess, Eberhard; Jordan, Cathrin; Noy, Ilan - 2022
Insurance for natural hazards - earthquakes, hurricanes, or pandemics - is rarely comprehensively adopted without intense government intervention, and even then it is often only a minority of properties or businesses that are insured. Efforts to close this insurance gap include the introduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296268
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Paying to Match : Decentralized Markets with Information Frictions
Agranov, Marina; Dianat, Ahrash; Samuelson, Larry; … - 2021
We experimentally study decentralized one-to-one matching markets with transfers. We vary the information available to participants, complete or incomplete, and the surplus structure, supermodular or submodular. Several insights emerge. First, while markets often culminate in efficient...
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How a firm can induce legislators to adopt a bad policy
Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - 2012
This paper shows why a majority of legislators may vote for a policy that benefits a firm but harms all legislators. The firm may induce legislators to support the policy by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representative support the policy. In...
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