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these incremental bidders at a price below their reserve, with no time to respond. As a consequence, these incremental …
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We examine the timing of firms' operations in a formal model of labor demand. Merging a variety of data sets from Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the...
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confirm that the cost of intertemporally substituting activities is increasing over time: when alerts are issued on two …, reset these costs. Our findings imply that a time-varying decision rule that accounts for multiple day air quality forecasts …
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We develop measures of time-varying risk aversion and economic uncertainty that are calculated from financial variables …
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average returns. This rules out typical risk-based explanations and is a challenge to structural models of time …
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When economic activity is concentrated over space or over time, it is more efficient. Most production occurs in … thick-market efficiencies that encourage the concentration of activity in certain time periods may be internal to the firm … of the effects. The firm should martial all its forces from time to time in bursts of activity. When thick-market effects …
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Myopia is increasingly believed to be a significant determinant of behavior and also plays a central role in justifications for social security and policies toward the taxation of capital. It is important, however, to account for labor supply effects, particularly in light of the preexisting...
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. The imperfect information is endogenized using a variant of the theory of quot;rational inattentionquot; proposed by Sims …
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time-varying weight in new lists, and one can decompose the market return into a fixed weight return plus a timing return …
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framework has continuous state variables but discrete time, which we regard as a convenient middle ground between the stochastic … calculus of high theory and the binomial models of classroom fame. In this setting, most of the models we examine are easily …
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