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This paper explores sources of complexity in dynamic optimization, examining how individuals navigate variation in incomes, prices, and returns in ten-period consumption-saving decisions. Our findings reveal that dynamic optimization poses significant challenges, resulting in suboptimal choices...
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Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates both to serve the market of the host country and to export to other markets outside the host country. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production...
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Statistical agencies have a dual mandate to provide accurate data and protect the privacy and confidentiality of data subjects. These mandates are fundamentally at odds and therefore must be balanced: more accurate data reduces privacy, while privacy protections introduce error that reduces...
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This article summarizes our views on the role of an "aggregation bias" in explaining the PPP Puzzle, in response to the … counter-examples which are not empirically relevant; (ii) simulation results minimizing the extent of "aggregation bias"; (iii … corrections. We conclude, as in our original paper, that "aggregation bias" goes a long way towards explaining the PPP puzzle …
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aggregation bias'. This paper re-examines aggregation bias. First, it clarifies the meaning of aggregation bias and its … that heterogeneity and aggregation bias do not help to solve the PPP puzzle …
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implement a case-study on the response of banks in France, Germany, Italy and Spain to a monetary tightening. The episode we …
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equilibrium unemployment. We then confront the theory to both the detailed facts of …standard theories can possibly explain. We develop a theory which can explain such …
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It has been widely remarked that US import prices have not fully reflected movements in the exchange rate. This paper begins with an investigation of the actual extent of "pricing to market" by foreign suppliers. It shows that pricing to market is a real phenomenon, but not universal; in...
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This paper examines the distribution of the values of patent rights in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany during …
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policy-induced variations in stock returns. Finally, monetary contractions have a larger impact on consumption in Germany and …
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