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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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-constrained consumers' access to financial markets make demand insensitive to interest rate fluctuations. The demand of credit … price sector influence aggregate demand and, for monetary policy to have its desired effect, the central bank has to …
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dimensions of heterogeneity: firms specific productivity shocks and firm-market specific demand shocks. The structural parameters …
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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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importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade. In particular, we decompose the fall in …
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elasticity of the demand for the output and the impact of demand and cost shifters. The use of this framework helps, in the first … way to assess the welfare effects of firms' innovative actions by estimating their impact on both cost and demand. We show …
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