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residential electricity market, we document evidence of consumer inertia. We estimate an econometric model of retail choice to …
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This paper develops a new theory of international economics by introducing Heckscher-Ohlin features of intra-temporal trade into an intertemporal trade approach of current account. To do so, we consider a dynamic general equilibrium model with tradable sectors of different factor intensities,...
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increases with delayed compliance, iii) equilibrium prices may not be unique, and iv) the delayed compliance equilibrium may … discovered by market forces. We then present two examples which are not invariant to compliance timing. If permit allocation is …Cap and trade programs have considerable heterogeneity in permit validity and compliance timing. For example, permits …
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While time-varying retail electricity pricing is very popular with economists, that support is not matched among … electricity pricing -- critical-peak pricing -- and suggest how it might be designed to more accurately match retail price spikes …
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Knowledge producers conducting research on a particular set of questions may respond to supply and demand shocks by shifting resources to a different set of questions. Cognitive mobility measures the transition from one location to another in idea space. We examine the cognitive mobility flows...
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exporters. In particular, high market-specific fixed costs of exporting, the (lack of) quality of the general contracting … terms of the total value of shipments and the number of products exported as well as in terms of prices and quantities …
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In addition to providing useful skills, education may also yield valuable information about one's tastes and talents. This paper exploits an exogenous difference in the timing of academic specialization within the British system of higher education to test whether education provides such...
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The fraction of newly-originated mortgages that are of the adjustable-rate (ARM) versus the fixed-rate (FRM) type exhibits a surprising amount of time variation. A simple utility framework of mortgage choice points to the bond risk premium as theoretical determinant: when the bond risk premium...
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flexibility is mainly driven by movers and short tenure workers. The cross-country comparison suggests that the relatively high …
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We document basic facts about prices in online markets in the U.S. and Canada, a rapidly growing segment of the retail … sector. Relative to prices in regular stores, prices in online markets are more flexible as well as exhibit stronger pass … our dataset to show that degree of competition, stickiness of prices, synchronization of price changes, reputation of …
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