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This profile of Jean-Michel Grandmont is based on several interviews we had with him between September 2016 and April 2017. The interviews took place at our CREST offices, located at that time in Malakoff, just south of Paris. The objective of the profile is twofold. First, we trace the career...
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This paper analyzes awards as a means of motivation prevalent in the scientific community, but so far neglected in the economic literature on incentives, and discusses their relationship to monetary compensation. Awards are better suited than performance pay to reward scientific tasks, which are...
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In monetary models in which agents are subject to trading shocks there is typically an ex-post inefficiency in that some agents are holding idle balances while others are cash constrained. This inefficiency creates a role for financial intermediaries, such as banks, who accept nominal deposits...
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not created due to a hold-up problem. Monetary expansion increases buyers' money holdings, and then, dealers are willing …
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The present work offers a review on two divergent schools of thought regarding the subject of money and highlights why … understanding it is important to grasp the workings and nature of the concept of money. We adopt a spontaneous order perspective on … social institutions, considering money as one. Such framework allows for the construction of axioms from which we formulate …
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Employing representative data from the U.S. Survey of Consumer Payment Choice, we disprove the hypothesis that cryptocurrency investors are motivated by distrust in fiat currencies or regulated finance. Compared with the general population, investors show no differences in their level of...
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This paper shows that price rigidity evolves in an economy populated by imperfectly rational agents who experiment with alternative rules of thumb. In the model, firms must set their prices in face of aggregate demand shocks. Their payoff depends on the level of aggregate demand, as well as on...
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Using data from the U.S. automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … this an interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over … patenting, and the relationship is reasonably non-linear; (2) higher market-wide competition results in an increase in patenting …
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This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and without gender quotas and a peer review process that allows for sabotage. Our findings show that the possibility of peer sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging...
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This paper sheds light on an empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination. We … shows that whether competition has a positive or negative effect on price dispersion depends on the level of demand …
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