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How do public and private information affect equilibrium allocations and social welfare in economies with investment … perverse effect of increasing aggregate volatility. Nevertheless, as long as there is no value to lotteries, welfare … transparency is optimal. This is because more transparency facilitates more effective coordination, which is valuable from a social …
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Global games of regime change -- that is, coordination games of incomplete information in which a status quo is …
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In this paper, we examine a supply chain in which a single supplier sells to a downstream newsvendor-type retailer. We make two assumptions that enrich this simple and well-understood model. First, we consider a multi-period model, in which the sequence of events is as follows. In a period, t,...
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We implement a new approach for the identification of news shocks about future technology. In a VAR featuring a measure of aggregate technology and several forward-looking variables, we identify the news shock as the shock orthogonal to technology innovations that best explains future variation...
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uniqueness of the equilibrium. In line with Keynesian thinking, these fluctuations may be attributed to "coordination failures …
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affecting IT's value and explore underlying mechanisms through which IT facilitates the coordination of labor inputs. We link … case mix. We decompose the impact of health IT into care coordination, clinical information management, and other … coordination and extensive clinical information management …
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This paper places current efforts at international economic policy coordination in historical perspective. It argues …
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coordination costs fell during this period. We then propose a quot;hierarchical production functionquot; in which output is the … that coordination costs fell broadly and steadily during this period, so that hiring one's first associate leveraged a …
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need for policy coordination: the specific choice of monetary policy limits the set of fiscal policies consistent with …
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We develop a political-economy model of economic union and compare the competion regime to the coordination regime. Key … policy differences emerge between the two regimes: concerning the generosity of the welfare state and the skill composition … of migration. We argue that the differences between the U.S. and the EU - the degree of coordination among the member …
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