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This paper examines the consequences of an asymmetric negative fertility shock on capital formation, saving/investment imbalance, and welfare. The framework of analysis is a Diamond-type overlapping-generations small open economy with capital market imperfection. The capital market imperfection...
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In a local economy, the citizens can react on local policy by exit. Exit induces a shift in the housing demand. The local policy may thus capitalize into the housing prices. However, the citizens encounter specific coordination problems on the housing market. Therefore, it may be asked how...
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This paper presents information on the relative valuation of fixed assets, using data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) coupled with observed longer-run historical relationships and “stylized facts” for macroeconomic relationships in the U.S. economy. Alternative scenarios are...
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costs of search with its marginal benefit. The consumer can maximize the utility of his consumption-leisure choice with … regard to the equality of marginal values of search. Therefore, the satisficing decision procedure results in the optimizing …
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equalizes marginal costs of search with its marginal benefits. The implicit optimal choice results in the explicit satisficing …
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labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions between markets, workers endogenously …
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The synthesis of the G.Sigler’s rule of the optimal search with the classical individual labor supply model enlarges … the understanding of the phenomenon of money flexibility. The constraints of the search model makes the Lagrangian …
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When expected savings on purchases are greater than the wage rate, the optimal search results in the negative marginal … utility of leisure. The search transforms the classical backward bending effect and the leisure becomes complementary to the … search. Consumers compensate “bad” leisure by status goods of exceptional quality on markets with high price dispersion …
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Firms simultaneously set prices in a homogeneous-product market where uninformed consumers search for price information …. Some uninformed consumers are local searchers who visit only one seller, possibly due to high search costs or bounded … rationality; whereas others search sequentially with an optimal reservation price. Equilibrium prices may follow a mixture …
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Intellectual giants provide broad shoulders for subsequent inventors. Their unfinished inquiry, however, also casts shadow on the prospect of future research. This paper incorporates this shadow effect into a two-stage innovation process and shows that patenting the first-stage result (the basic...
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