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thus allows for better intertemporal price discrimination. Assigning inventory control to a manufacturer is also shown to …
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The paper develops a simple theoretical model of inventory control in global supply chains. It identifies a role for intermediaries in managing inventory, and shows that inserting an intermediary as an additional link in a supply chain is profitable when demand volatility is high. It also...
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This paper analyzes the optimal adjustment strategy of an inventory-holding firm facing price- and quantity … costlessly adjusted, and the later model that includes price- and quantity-adjustment costs, but rules out inventory holdings. It …
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Economic shocks often permeate borders generating comovement in nations' business cycles over time. We highlight the fact that fiscal policy coordination is an important avenue by which national economies become more integrated, influencing the transmission of macroeconomic shocks between...
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In a partial equilibrium setting without price uncertainty, the balanced-budget substitution of an ad valorem tax on … competitive market characterised by uncertainty about the commodity price, if firms can respond to the revelation of demand …
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overvalues a product attribute - quality or price - that stands out in a particular choice situation. In a highly competitive low-price … environment like on an online platform, consumers focus more on price rather than quality. Especially if the market power of local … (physical) retailers is low, price tends to be salient also in the local store, which is unfavorable for the high …
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It has been shown that extending the Calvo model to account for the heterogeneity in price stickiness suggested by the … micro-evidence significantly improves the performance of the model. In the new model, price-changing firms are chosen …
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This paper identifies the mechanism through which financial crises exert long-term negative effects on output. Theory …
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This paper presents empirical evidence against the popular perception that macro volatility is exogenous. We obtain tax effects on macro aggregates in the stochastic neoclassical model. Taxes are shown to affect the second moment of output growth rates without affecting the first moment....
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Serial correlation in macroeconomics is pervasive. Macroeconomic modellers find it impossible to model this feature without relying on serially correlated shocks. Using a behavioral macroeconomic model, I show that serial correlation in inflation and output can easily be explained in the context...
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