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This paper examines the effects of a proportional capital gains tax in an economy with an Austrian sector (with wine and trees) and an ordinary sector. We analyze the effect of capital gains taxation (on both an accrual and a realization basis) on the efficiency with which resources are used...
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The Austrian theory of the "marginal use" is restated and extended. It is found that the Austrian concept of marginal …
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The dynamic behavior of security prices is studied in a setting where two agents trade strategically and learn over time from market prices. The model introduces an information structure which is intended to capture the notion that information is difficult to interpret. Strategic interaction and...
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We provide a selective survey of empirical evidence on the effects as well as the drivers of persuasive communication … response to persuasive communication? In particular, we distinguish information-based models from preference-based models …
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We develop a model of asset price bubbles based on the communication process between advisors and investors. Advisors …
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Over the last two decades, communication has become an increasingly important aspect of monetary policy. These real …-world developments have spawned a huge new scholarly literature on central bank communication -- mostly empirical, and almost all of it … written in this decade. We survey this ever-growing literature. The evidence suggests that communication can be an important …
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particularly attractive locations to offshore? In this paper we address these questions with a theory of international production … hierarchies in which organizations arise endogenously to make efficient use of agents' knowledge. Our theory highlights the role … that the positive effect of middle skills on offshoring is weaker, the more advanced are communication technologies in the …
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Information is a crucial ingredient in economic decision making. Yet measuring the extent of information exchange among individuals and its effect on economic outcomes is a difficult task. We use the universe of de-identified cellphone usage records from more than one million users in a Chinese...
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A large empirical literature found that the correlation between insurance purchase and ex post realization of risk is often statistically insignificant or negative. This is inconsistent with the predictions from the classic models of insurance a la Akerlof (1970), Pauly (1974) and Rothschild and...
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comparable to themselves to be the most persuasive. Incorporating communication dynamics can take the influential social learning …
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