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This paper studies how selling constraints, which refer to the inability of firms to attend to all the buyers who want to inspect their products, affect the equilibrium price and social welfare. We show that the price that maximizes social welfare is greater than the marginal cost. This is...
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This paper empirically investigates the relationship between TV news coverage and the GIIPS countries' bond yield spreads using daily data between January 1, 2007 and December 1, 2016. We employ 1,542,233 human coded news items from evening news shows of leading TV stations in 12 countries which...
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The optimal investment to mitigate climate change crucially depends on the discount rate used to evaluate the investment's uncertain future benefits. The appropriate discount rate is a function of the horizon over which these benefits accrue and the riskiness of the investment. In this paper, we...
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We analyze how investor expectations about economic growth and stock returns changed during the February-March 2020 stock market crash induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as during the subsequent partial stock market recovery. We surveyed retail investors who are clients of Vanguard at...
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We administer a newly-designed survey to a large panel of retail investors who have substantial wealth invested in financial markets. The survey elicits beliefs that are crucial for macroeconomics and finance, and matches respondents with administrative data on their portfolio composition and...
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rates of 15 ecosystem services and the degree of limited substitutability based on a meta-analysis of 36 willingness to pay …
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economy composed of two reproducible assets, each producing one of two consumption goods. The effect of the substitutability … between goods in utility is studied by postulating, in turn, neoclassical diminishing marginal substitutability, perfect … substitutability and perfect complementarity. The degree of substitutability has strong effects on the maximin solution, affecting the …
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Climate change not only impacts production and market consumption, but also the relative scarcity of non-market goods, such as environmental amenities. We study fundamental drivers of the resulting relative price changes, their potential magnitude, and their implications for climate policy in...
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-specific intertemporal substitutability. This is, for example, relevant for dual discounting of market and non-market goods. …
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We study the heterogeneity of preferences regarding the limited substitutability of environmental public goods vis … mean marginal willingness to pay for an environmental public good decreases in society’s mean substitutability preference … and increases in the heterogeneity of individual-level substitutability preferences. We then introduce an experimental …
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