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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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than one-year) historical asset class return distributions. In contrast, we find that such information aggregation … strategy, we show that previously documented aggregation effects are not robust to (i) changes in the distribution of the risky …
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asset markets and indivisible labor supply. Imperfect aggregation manifests itself through preference shocks in the …
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This paper presents a new framework for human capital measurement. The generalized framework can (i) substantially amplify the role of human capital in accounting for cross-country income differences and (ii) reconcile the existing conflict between regression and accounting evidence in assessing...
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We use a novel dataset of online prices of identical goods sold by four large global retailers in dozens of countries to study good-level real exchange rates and their aggregated behavior. First, in contrast to the prior literature, we demonstrate that the law of one price holds very well within...
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how network structure influences information aggregation. We develop a model of semi-Bayesian learning on networks, which …
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us to estimate models with recursive preferences, latent state variables, and time-aggregated data. Time-aggregation … makes the decision interval of the agent an important parameter to estimate. We find that time-aggregation can significantly … affect parameter estimates and statistical inference. Imposing the pricing restrictions and explicitly accounting for time-aggregation …
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to geographic aggregation. After reviewing the tradeoffs associated with more- and less-disaggregated analyses … of geographic aggregation. This analysis reveals that more-disaggregated analyses severely understate the extent to which …-level data to explore heterogeneity in the link between county economic conditions and health across states, demonstrating that …
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We propose a social choice rule for aggregating preferences elicited from surveys into a marginal adjustment of policy from the status quo. The mechanism is: (i) symmetric in its treatment of survey respondents; (ii) ordinal, using only the orientation of respondents' indifference surfaces;...
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We study the information aggregation properties of unanimous voting rules in the laboratory. In line with theoretical …
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