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Media Market Concentration, Advertising Levels, and Ad Prices

Anderson, Simon P. - 2011

Standard media economics models imply that increased platform competition decreases ad levels and that mergers reduce per-viewer ad prices. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed. We attribute the theoretical predictions to the combined assumptions that there is no advertising congestion and...

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Beyond the DSGE Straitjacket

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011

Academic macroeconomics and the research department of central banks have come to be dominated by Dynamic, Stochastic, General Equilibrium (DSGE) models based on micro-foundations of optimising representative agents with rational expectations. We argue that the dominance of this particular sort...

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Competition between Content Distributors in Two-Sided Markets

Bergh, Harald - 2012

We analyze strategic interactions between two competing distributors of an independent TV channel. Consistent with most of the relevant markets, we assume that the distributors set end-user prices while the TV channel sets advertising prices. Within this framework we show that the distributors...

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From Optimal Tax Theory to Applied Tax Policy

Jacobs, Bas - 2013

This paper aims to provide a perspective on the ideal tax system using insights from optimal-tax theory supplemented …

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Second-Best Income Taxation with Endogenous Human Capital and Borrowing Constraints

Jacobs, Bas - 2013

We formulate a two-period life-cycle model of saving, labor supply, and human capital investments when individuals differ in ability and initial wealth. Borrowing constraints prevent individuals to optimally smooth consumption over the life-cycle and to optimally invest in human capital. We show...

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Optimal Linear Commodity Taxation Under Optimal Non-Linear Income Taxation

Jacobs, Bas - 2013

This paper analyzes optimal linear commodity taxes joint with non-linear income taxes. We provide optimal tax rules based on empirically observable elasticities. We demonstrate that commodities should be taxed/subsidized if doing so boosts labor supply. The critical role of commodity taxation is...

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Market Segmentation in Two-Sided Markets : TV Rights for Premier League

Kind, Hans Jarle - 2013

international price differences and buy access to Premier League TV matches from whichever country they like. We compare complete …

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An Exponential Class of Dynamic Binary Choice Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects

Al-Sadoon, Majid - 2013

This paper develops a model for dynamic binary choice panel data that allows for unobserved heterogeneity to be arbitrarily correlated with covariates. The model is of the exponential type. We derive moment conditions that enable us to eliminate the unobserved heterogeneity term and at the same...

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Double-Question Survey Measures for the Analysis of Financial Bubbles and Crashes

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2017

belief valuations are compared and related to their price expectations. An individual respondent is presented with two sets …-valued), and another regarding his/her expectations of the future price of that asset. Responses to these two questions are then … between the agents expectations of price changes and their asset valuation. Double question surveys on equity, gold and house …

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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2015

concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …

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