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Payment Innovations, the Shadow Economy and Cash Demand of Households in Euro Area Countries
Reimers, Hans-Eggert; Schneider, Friedrich; Seitz, Franz - 2021
We analyze for the first time cash holdings of private households in all euro area countries from 2002 to 2019 within a … panel cointegration framework. Besides the traditional determinants of cash demand like transactions balances and … opportunity costs, we concentrate on cashless payments media as substitutes to cash payments and the role of the shadow economy …
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The Pandemic, Cash and Retail Payment Behaviour : Insights from the Future of Payments Database
Auer, Raphael; Cornelli, Giulio; Frost, Jon - 2023
? What do they imply for the future of cash and digital payments? We assemble a new “Future of Payments” database on retail … countries. We find that card-not-present payments, payment app downloads and the volume of cash in circulation all rose in weeks …
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Trade retaliation in a monetary-trade model
Whalley, John; Yu, Jun; Zhang, Shunming - 2009
We explore how outcomes of trade policy retaliation (Nash tariff games) are affected when trade simultaneously takes places geographically across countries and through time via financial intermediation. In such models deficits and surpluses in goods trade are endogenously determined, and...
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The Demand for Fact-Checking
Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2021
Using a large-scale online experiment with more than 8,000 U.S. respondents, we examine how the demand for a politics newsletter changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for fact-checking when the newsletter features stories from an...
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A Monetary Equilibrium with the Lender of Last Resort
Matsuoka, Tarishi; Watanabe, Makoto - 2023
This paper studies the role of a lender of last resort (LLR) in a monetary model where a shortage of a bank’s monetary reserves (a liquidity crisis) occurs endogenously. We show that discount window lending by the LLR is welfare-improving but reduces banks’ ex-ante incentive to hold monetary...
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Minimum Wage, Trade and Unemployment in General Equilibrium
Marjit, Sugata - 2020
The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age-old conventional wisdom on its head. This paper demonstrates that this apparently paradoxical result is perfectly plausible in a competitive general equilibrium production...
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Energy Efficiency in General Equilibrium with Input-Output Linkages
Blackburn, Christopher J. - 2020
Industrial activity periodically experiences breakthrough innovations in energy efficiency, but the estimated impacts of these innovations on aggregate energy use are highly varied. We develop a general equilibrium model to investigate whether this variation is determined by the structure of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844213
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A General Equilibrium Theory of Occupational Choice Under Optimistic Beliefs About Entrepreneurial Ability
Dell'Era, Michele - 2019
This paper studies the impact of optimism on occupational choice using a general equilibrium framework. The model shows that optimism has four main qualitative effects: it leads to a misallocation of talent, drives up input prices, raises the number of entrepreneurs, and makes entrepreneurs...
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Food Subsidies in General Equilibrium
Hummel, Albert Jan; Ziesemer, Vinzenz - 2021
The Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem on uniform consumption taxation breaks down if prices are endogenous. This paper investigates the implications for optimal food subsidies in China. To do so, we build a general equilibrium model where low-skilled workers have a comparative advantage in the...
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The Rise of For-Profit Higher Education : A General Equilibrium Analysis
Domnisoru, Ciprian; Schiopu, Ioana C. - 2021
The growth of for-profit colleges has been historically aided by online instruction, and budget crunches at public institutions, circumstances which have resurfaced during the COVID-19 pandemic. We set up and calibrate a general equilibrium model of competition between public and for-profit...
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