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The paper considers the problem of choosing a multilateral system of index numbers in order to make aggregate price and quantity comparisons between many countries and regions. The problems involved in choosing functional forms in order to make these comparisons are both theoretically and...
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Are country borders still an impediment to trade flows within Europe? Using a rich microlevel survey with 3 million annual shipments of goods by road across 269 European regions, we construct a matrix of bilateral trade flows for 12 industries from 2011 to 2017. We then use the causal inference...
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flexibility is desirable in the presence of real country-specific shocks that require adjustment in relative prices. However, in …
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We implement a new survey of firms, focusing on their higher-order macroeconomic expectations. The survey provides a novel set of stylized facts regarding the relationship between first-order and higher-order expectations of economic agents, including how they adjust their beliefs in response to...
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two-way trade in differentiated products. The findings are consistent with the "smooth adjustment" hypothesis. Anti …
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This paper reconciles the persistence of aggregate real exchange rates with the faster adjustment of international … stylized facts regarding this puzzle. First, adjustment to purchasing power parity deviations in aggregated data is not just a … slower version of adjustment to the law of one price in microeconomic data, as arbitrage occurs in different markets, in …
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A pervasive problem in the literature on the health costs of pollution is that optimizing individuals may compensate for increases in pollution by reducing their exposure to protect their health. This implies that estimates of the health effects of pollution may vastly understate the full...
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What determines the boundary of multinational firms? According to Williamson (1975), a potential rationale for vertical integration is to facilitate adaptation in a world where uncertainty is resolved over time. This paper offers the first empirical analysis of the impact of adaptation on the...
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We find evidence of threshold behavior in current account adjustment for the G7 countries, such that the dynamics of … adjustment towards equilibrium depend upon whether the current-account/ net-output ratio breaches estimated, country specific … current account surplus or deficit thresholds. Both the speeds of adjustment and the size of the thresholds are found to …
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, econometric partial adjustment models perform relatively well at the aggregate level. Analyzing the classic employment adjustment … problem, we show how discrete and occasional microeconomic adjustment is well described by a new form of partial adjustment … discrete and occasional adjustment at the micro level, where production units are essentially restricted to either operate with …
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