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Many important markets, such as the housing market, involve goods that are both indivisible and of budgetary significance. We introduce new graph theoretic techniques ideally suited to analyzing such markets. In this paper and its companion (Caplin and Leahy [2010]), we use these techniques to...
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technologies. Equilibrium extraction is too large and comes too early for public resources, but the opposite is true for private …
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can withdraw from the market after initial contract offers have been observed. We show that a subgame perfect equilibrium … always exists and that, in fact, when withdrawal is costless, the set of subgame perfect equilibrium outcomes may correspond … robust equilibrium outcome of our game. This outcome is always constrained efficient and involves cross-subsidization from …
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sustainable equilibrium, distortions to production emerge and never disappear even in the long run. This result is driven by the … sufficiently large, there is equilibrium turnover in the long run so that political cycles never disappear. Finally, our model …
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This paper proposes forward convergence as a model refinement scheme for linear rational expectations (LRE) models and an associated no-bubble condition as a solution selection criterion. We relate these two concepts to determinacy and characterize the complete set of economically relevant...
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is used one quarter of the time. A choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed to analyze the … equilibrium effects that are typically absent in epidemiological studies and small-scale field experiments. For some interventions …
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The standard approach to policy-making and advice in economics implicitly or explicitly ignores politics and political economy, and maintains that if possible, any market failure should be rapidly removed. This essay explains why this conclusion may be incorrect; because it ignores politics,...
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We analyze a new class of equilibria that emerges when a central bank conducts monetary policy by setting an interest rate (as an arbitrary function of its available information) and letting the private sector set the quantity traded. These equilibria involve a run on the central bank's interest...
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of regulation in a labor market with heterogeneous workers and jobs. To achieve this we develop an equilibrium model of … wage determination and employment which extends the current literature on equilibrium wage determination with matching and …
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We present and empirically implement an equilibrium labor market search model where risk averse workers facing medical … evaluate the equilibrium impact of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) and find that it would reduce the uninsured rate among … the roles of different components of the ACA in contributing to these equilibrium changes. Interestingly, we find that the …
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