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We study the liquidity demand of large settlement banks in the UK and its effect on the Sterling Money Markets before … amount of payment activity and more so for weaker banks. We establish that the liquidity demand by settlement banks caused …
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the insurance cost explain between 34 and 37 percent of the relationship between the default and flood insurance demand …
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This paper presents estimates of the customer-level demand for electricity by industrial and commercial customers … customers also face the possibility of a demand charge on their electricity consumption during the three half-hour periods that … fraction of the energy charge and the identity of the half-hour periods when demand charges occur are only known with certainty …
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We study the role of morality in debt repayment, using an experiment with the credit card customers of a large Islamic bank in Indonesia. In our main treatment, clients receive a text message stating that “non-repayment of debts by someone who is able to repay is an injustice.” This moral...
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We review an empirical literature that studies the role of social interactions in driving economic and financial decision making. We first summarize recent work that documents an important role of social interactions in explaining household decisions in housing and mortgage markets. This...
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This paper uses a Ceridian transaction-by-transaction data set on purchases of diesel fuel by over-the-road truckers to form a monthly diesel volume purchase index from 1999 to 2011, purged of weekday, holiday and calendar effects. These high-frequency data support a new and improved set of...
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We develop an estimator for the parameters of a utility function that has interactions between the unobserved demand … contraction can still be used to recover the mean utility term that now contains both the demand error and the interactions with … and we show together they are sufficient for identification of all of the demand parameters. A major advantage of our …
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The failure of many paintings to sell in art auctions indicates the presence of reserve prices set by sellers. This paper examines the relationship between sale rates and price surprises over time in art auctions. Using data on contemporary and impressionist art, we show that while sale rates...
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A positive correlation between insurance coverage and ex post risk can be an indicator for private information in insurance markets. However, this test fails if agents have heterogeneous risk attitudes. We propose a new test that conditions on unobserved types of individuals who differ in their...
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our theory. We show that a key parameter determining the incentives for war is the elasticity of demand. Our first result … military action. In the case of inelastic resource demand, war incentives increase over time and war may become inevitable. Our …
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