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What Can Economics Say About Alzheimer's Disease?
Chandra, Amitabh - 2020
States. We describe the central economic questions raised by AD. While there is overlap with the economics of aging, the … defining features of the ‘economics of Alzheimer's Disease' is an emphasis on cognitive decline, choice by cognitively impaired … public programs for AD. These topics overlap with many areas of economics -- labor economics, health economics, public …
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On Money as a Medium of Exchange in Near-Cashless Credit Economies
Lagos, Ricardo - 2019
that—in contrast to current conventional wisdom in policy-oriented research in monetary economics—the role of money in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871153
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The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer
Mankiw, N. Gregory - 2006
This essay offers a brief history of macroeconomics, together with an evaluation of what has been learned over the past several decades. It is based on the premise that the field has evolved through the efforts of two types of macroeconomist%u2014 those who understand the field as a type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779829
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The Integration of Economic History into Economics
Margo, Robert A. - 2017
In the United States today the academic field of economic history is much closer to economics than it is to history in … terms of professional behavior, a stylized fact that I call the “integration of economic history into economics”. I document … history and economics; and publication histories of successive cohorts of PhDs in the first decade since receiving the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953510
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Open Access as a Crude Solution to a Hold-Up Problem in the Two-Sided Market for Academic Journals
McCabe, Mark J. - 2019
The move from traditional to open-access journals—which charge no subscription fees, only submission fees—is gaining support in academia. We analyze a two-sided-market model in which journals cannot commit to subscription fees when authors (who prefer low subscription fees because this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903350
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Interdependent Security : A General Model
Heal, Geoffrey M.; Kunreuther, Howard - 2012
In an interdependent world the risks faced by any one agent depend not only on its choices but also on those of all others. Expectations about others' choices will influence investments in risk-management, and the outcome can be sub-optimal investment all round. We model this as the Nash...
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Covariances Versus Characteristics in General Equilibrium
Lin, Xiaoji - 2011
We question a deep-ingrained doctrine in asset pricing: If an empirical characteristic-return relation is consistent with investor "rationality," the relation must be "explained" by a risk factor model. The investment approach changes the big picture of asset pricing. Factors formed on...
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An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy
Mankiw, N. Gregory - 2011
This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which prices are sticky in the short run and flexible in the long run. Policy is evaluated by how well it raises the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124860
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Legal Investor Protection and Takeovers
Burkart, Mike - 2011
We study the role of legal investor protection for the efficiency of the market for corporate control. Stronger legal investor protection limits the ease with which an acquirer, once in control, can extract private benefits at the expense of non-controlling investors. This, in turn, increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125583
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Existence of Equilibrium and Stratification in Local and Hierarchical Tiebout Economies with Property Taxes and Voting
Nechyba, Thomas J. - 2010
We present the first fully closed general equilibrium model of hierarchical and local public goods economies with the following features: (i) multiple agent types who are endowed with both some amount of private good (income) and a house, who are mobile between houses and jurisdictions, and who...
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