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"product replacement bias" and quantify its importance using U.S. microdata on import and export prices. We show that …, accounting for product replacement bias, long-run exchange rate "pass-through" into U.S. import and export price indexes is …
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This paper revisits the important ideas proposed by Atkinson and Stiglitz's seminal 1969 paper on technological change. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological change literature, it explains how these three...
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We study how the structure of social media networks and the presence of fake news might affect the degree of misinformation and polarization in a society. For that, we analyze a dynamic model of opinion exchange in which individuals have imperfect information about the true state of the world...
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Even though stock returns are not highly autocorrelated, there is a spurious regression bias in predictive regressions … variables interacts with spurious regression bias. The two effects reinforce each other, because more highly persistent series …
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When a rate of return is regressed on a lagged stochastic regressor, such as a dividend yield, the regression disturbance is correlated with the regressor's innovation. The OLS estimator's finite-sample properties, derived here, can depart substantially from the standard regression setting....
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, existing research suggests that online reviews often suffer from selection bias—people with extreme opinions are more motivated … reviewing has the potential to reduce this selection bias, because incentives can mitigate the motivational deficit of people … voluntary reviews have a different distribution from incentivized reviews. The likely bias in the distribution of voluntary …
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We offer a new social approach to investment decision making and asset prices. Investors discuss their strategies and convert others to their strategies with a probability that increases in investment returns. The conversion rate is shown to be convex in realized returns. Unconditionally, active...
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We model visibility bias in the social transmission of consumption behavior. When consumption is more salient than non …
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We study loss aversion in majority voting. First, we show a status quo bias. Second, loss aversion implies a moderating …; however, in the presence of a projection bias, majorities are partially unable to understand how fast they will adapt. Fourth …
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We introduce a model of two-sided statistical discrimination in which worker and firm beliefs are complementary. Firms try to infer whether workers have made investments required for them to be productive, and simultaneously, workers try to deduce whether firms have made investments necessary...
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