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-independent models of fairness. Our results have implications for price discrimination, labor markets, and dynamic pricing …
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This study explores empirically the price dynamics within two distinct market institutions - a double oral auction …
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Inventories and price changes are correlated. The inverse relation is most obvious in housing where inventories build …
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The thesis of this paper is that more transparent, rule-bound and subtle mechanisms for policy coordination will be needed to ensure the success of an enlarged European Union. A common policy is a public good with distributional implications. Economists have developed a large number of plausible...
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paper examines the relationship between sale rates and price surprises over time in art auctions. Using data on contemporary … strong positive relationship of sale rates to unexpected aggregate price changes, which is reminiscent of a Phillips curve … that sale rates revert to "normal" very quickly following a price surprise. We estimate an empirical model to measure …
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How does an economy behave if (1) fundamentals are truly hump-shaped, exhibiting momentum in the short run and partial mean reversion in the long run, and (2) agents do not know that fundamentals are hump-shaped and base their beliefs on parsimonious models that they fit to the available data? A...
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The paper studies asset pricing in informationally decentralized markets. These markets have two key frictions: trading is decentralized (bilateral), and some agents have private information. We analyze how uninformed agents acquire information over time from their bilateral trades. In...
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Blomquist and Christensen (2005) argue that welfare is initially decreasing in the price of an excludable public good … and that the case for a positive price for an excludable public good price is weak. We argue that this result follows from … overturns their result. Hence the policy case for a positive price on the public good is stronger than Blomquist and …
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weight on their private signals than rational traders. But because they neglect that the price encodes other traders …
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This paper reconsiders the Phelps-Lucas hypothesis, according to which temporary real effects of purely nominal disturbances result from imperfect information, but departs from the assumptions of Lucas (1973) in two crucial respects. Due to monopolistically competitive pricing, higher-order...
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