. The main issue we focus on is how the euro may alter the responsiveness of consumer prices to exchange rate changes. Our … central conjectures is that the acceptance of the euro will lead European prices to become more insulated from exchange …

countries and product categories, in the euro area over the last fifteen years. Our results show that the transmission of … the introduction of the euro caused a structural change in this transmission. Although estimated point elasticities seem … to have declined since the introduction of the euro, we find little evidence of a structural break in the transmission of …

We consider nonparametric identification in models of differentiated products markets, using only market level … models widely used in applied work. We allow for product/market-specific unobservables, endogenous product characteristics (e …

behavior in the car market. We show that a social planner can use leasing contracts to improve welfare but they are imperfect … tools; they cannot generally achieve first best while other mechanisms can. We also show that a producer with market power … can benefit from leasing contracts for two reasons: better pricing of the option of keeping the used good, and market …

the demand and suppoly for labor-intensive care. Many economists have argued that aging will raise the market demand for … long-term care, and hence price and quantity through classic market effects. We argue that the direct effect of aging is to … lower the demand for market care by incresing the supply of home production. By influencing the length of frail lifetimes …