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. We show that prices tend to fall during the seasonal demand peak for a product and that changes in retail margins account …
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informed by economic theory, we simultaneously estimate a demand system and price-cost margins for products differentiated in …We demonstrate how to estimate a model of product demand and oligopoly pricing when products are multi …
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This paper presents new empirical evidence in support of the view that a significant fraction of total saving is motivated solely by the desire to leave bequests. Specifically, I find that Social Security annuity benefits significantly raise life insurance holdings and depress private annuity...
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A model of the dynamically interrelated demand for capital and labor is specified and estimated. The estimates are of … slow rates of adjustment displayed in other, related estimates of the demand for capital. Because adjustment is estimated …
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Excessive layoffs in bad times and excessive quits in good times both stem from the same weakness in practical employment arrangements: the specific nature of worker-firm relations creates a situation of bilateral monopoly. Institutions which have arisen to avert the associated inefficiency...
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In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions for an asset substitution matrix to be symmetric for all distributions of rates of return are derived. It is found that symmetry in this context is essentially equivalent to the proposition that the von Neumann-Morgenstern utility function...
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Although there have been a large number of empirical studies of the demand for international reserves, there have not … demand function trigger a process of adjustment. This paper presents new evidence which suggests that central banks do have a … rapid. In addition, an economic theory of the speed of adjustment is presented and tested. The evidence suggests that …
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Some additional evidence on the comparative effect of income, regulation, and other variables on the demand for lawyers … demand for lawyers. Section I presents a theoretical model of the demand for and supply of lawyers. The empirical … investment in legal education. Section, presents other evidence of an excess demand for lawyers and offers several explanations …
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Aggregate housing demand shocks are an important source of house price fluctuations in the standard macroeconomic …-rent puzzle"). We build a tractable heterogeneous-agent model that provides a microeconomic foundation for housing demand shocks …
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From its inception, demand estimation has faced the problem of "many prices." This paper provides estimators of average … demand and associated bounds on exact consumer surplus when there are many prices in cross-section or panel data. For cross … "zeros problem" of demand. For panel data we provide bias corrected, ridge regularized estimators of average coefficients and …
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