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income. Stratification and sorting often manifest state-dependent preferences in which the marginal utility of income … before location is chosen, the a priori von Neuman-Morgenstern utility function over both choices can take the Friedman …
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Can a rational choice modeling framework help broaden our understanding of anorexia nervosa? This question is interesting because anorexia nervosa is a serious health concern, and because of the following issue: could a rational choice approach shed useful light on a condition which appears to...
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This paper proposes a simple homogeneous dynamic model of investment and corporate risk management for a financially constrained firm. Following Froot, Scharfstein, and Stein (1993), we define a corporation's risk management as the coordination of investment and financing decisions. In our...
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In theory, we should expect tariffs to be partially offset by a currency appreciation in the tariff-imposing country or …
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Why do firms outsource research and development (R&D) for some products while conducting R&D in-house for similar ones? An innovating firm risks cannibalizing its existing products. The more profitable these products, the more the firm wants to limit cannibalization. We apply this logic to the...
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We describe a framework for empirical welfare analysis that uses the causal estimates of a policy’s impact on net government spending. This framework provides guidance for which causal effects are (and are not) needed for empirical welfare analysis of public policies.The key ingredient is the...
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We present a new class of methods for identification and inference in dynamic models with serially correlated unobservables, which typically imply that state variables are econometrically endogenous. In the context of Industrial Organization, these state variables often reflect econometrically...
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auctioned stock does not affect their WTP. Our results are thus compatible with a utility model where non-pecuniary benefits of …
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This paper proposes a theory of price rigidity consistent with survey evidence that firms stabilize prices out of … fairness to their consumers. The theory relies on two psychological assumptions. First, customers care about the fairness of … rigid. Embedded in a simple macroeconomic model, our pricing theory produces nonneutral monetary policy, a short …
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The epidemiological literature suggests that virus transmission occurs only when individuals are in relatively close contact. We show that if society can control the extent to which economic agents are exposed to the virus and agents can commit to contracts, virus externalities are local, and...
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