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an additional hedging motif driven by the interaction between real exchange rate risk and ambiguity aversion. What … matters is the long-run as opposed to the short-run risk. Domestic equity is a good hedge with respect to long-run real … exchange rate risk even when bonds are traded. The higher is the degree of ambiguity aversion, the stronger is the home bias …
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Although the college-high school wage gap for younger men has doubled over the past 30 years, the gap for older men has remained nearly constant. We argue that these shifts reflect changes in the relative supply of highly-educated workers across age groups. Cohorts born in the first half of the...
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Modern neoclassical theories of the business cycle posit that aggregate fluctuations in consumption and employment are the consequence of dynamic optimizing behavior by economic agents who face no quantity constraint. In this paper, we estimate an explicit model :f this type. In particular, we...
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that the von Neumann-Morgenstern utility function displays either constant absolute or constant relative risk aversion …
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equity premium, the extent of predictability is smaller than in the data. In this model, the risk-free asset market plays a … process concentrates nonstockholders' aggregate labor income risk among a small group of stockholders, who then demand a high … premium for bearing the aggregate equity risk. Furthermore, this mechanism is consistent with the very small share of …
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Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...
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This paper develops a graphical analysis and an analytical model that demonstrate how weak substitution can be used for non-market valuation. Both weak complementarity and weak substitution can be evaluated as restrictions that allow quantity or quality changes in non-market goods to be...
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substitution over time --namely that 'the' interest rate in aggregate theory is not the promised yield on a Treasury Bill or Bond …
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In recent papers, Nelson and Pack (1995) , Rodrik (1997), and Hsieh (1997a) argue that standard measures of total factor productivity growth in countries where the capital-labour ratio has risen rapidly, e.g. the East Asian NICS, will understate true productivity growth if the elasticity of...
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We document a change in household shopping behavior during the Great Recession. Households purchased more on sale, larger sizes and generic products, increased coupon usage, and shopping at discount stores. We estimate that the returns to these shopping activities declined during the recession...
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