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find that the only significant relationship implies the existence of a lagged effect of prices on output in the case of the …
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framework and firm-level prices and quantities data for detailed products allowing us to both measure demand, and its changes …
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Prices, and reduces price volatility. Our findings are important for emission trading schemes worldwide, such as California …
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Fiscal deficits, elevated debt-to-GDP ratios, and high inflation rates suggest hyperinflation could have potentially emerged in many European countries after World War I. We demonstrate that economic policy uncertainty was instrumental in pushing a subset of European countries into...
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firms' revenue, quantity and prices to estimate TFP and TFP-R and decompose the latter into various elements. Our analysis … suggests that the revenue productivity advantage of denser areas is mainly driven by higher prices charged rather than …, despite higher prices. These and other results we document suggest that firms in denser areas are able to charge higher prices …
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significantly increased in the municipalities receiving aid. This additional entry decreased average prices. Therefore, the …
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We use transaction-level US import data to compare firms from virtually all countries in the world competing in a single destination market. Guided by a simple theoretical framework, we decompose countries. market shares into the contribution of the number of firm-products, their average...
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We study the dual relationship between market structure and prices and between market structure and investment in … mobile telecommunications. Using a uniquely constructed panel of mobile operators’ prices and accounting information across … 33 OECD countries between 2002 and 2014, we document that more concentrated markets lead to higher end user prices …
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OPTIMThe conservative central banker has come under attack recently. Explicitly modeling the interaction of a trade union with monetary policy, it has been argued that the standard solution to the inflationary bias in monetary policy might actually be welfare reducing if the trade union has an...
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What is the optimal institutional structure for an independent central bank? The paper shows when it will be optimal for a country to have a central bank to be organized according to federal, purely national or a combination of both aspects. The analysis is then extended to a supranational...
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