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demand. It looks at a market with social effects where consumers want to do what is popular, to buy what they believe others … certain naive consumers into believing that demand is greater than it actually is. This will in turn increase the willingness … demand is lower than expected, even when the number of naive consumers is arbitrarily small. …
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This paper discusses the measurement of production and employment effects of trade policy, and more broadly the effects of economic integration and globalization. First, it provides a broad-brush overview of the ex-post literature linking trade to performance, such as measures of worker...
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In this paper I determine the importance of adjustment costs in employers' hiring decisions. Temporary work arrangements offer potential ways to avoid adjustment costs. I estimate employers willingness to pay for the characteristics of these work arrangements. I distinguish regular contracts,...
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This paper analyzes third-degree price discrimination of a monopoly airline in the presence of congestion externality … passengers exhibit a higher time valuation, and a less price-elastic demand, than leisure passengers. Our main result is the …
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This paper studies the relation between optimal dam capacity and water management under rivalry uses and externalities. We extend the hydropower generation model, based on Haddad (2011), by including the competing use of water resource, non-linear building cost of dam capacity and externalities...
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Conventional economic wisdom suggests that congestion pricing would be an appropriate response to cope with the growing congestion levels currently experienced at many airports. Several characteristics of aviation markets, however, may make naive congestion prices equal to the value of marginal...
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