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This paper develops a model where firms make state-dependent decisions on both pricing and acquisition of information. It is shown that when information is not perfect, menu costs combined with the aggregate price level serving as an endogenous public signal generate rigidity in price setting...
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We examine the role of consumption externalities in the demand for pharmaceuticals at both the brand level and over a … equations describing the dynamic adjustment process. We find that consumption externalities influence both valuations and rates …
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capital gain position of the fund. This paper's simulations show that these externalities are important determinants of the …
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This paper presents a simple but quite general framework for analyzing the impact of informational externalities. By … identifying the traditional pecuniary effect of these externalities which nets out,the paper greatly simplifies the problem of …
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This paper examines how the optimal Pigouvian tax should be adjusted to reflect administrative costs. Several cases are examined, depending on whether the administrative costs are fixed per firm taxed or are a function of the amount of tax collected, and on whether such costs are borne by the...
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programs to alleviate these intergenerational externalities. Specifically, the sub-optimal investment in offspring human …'s education. Less obvious externalities may result when parents underinvest in themselves because they fail to consider spillover … intergenerational externalities in greater detail …
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meaningful fire sale externalities in the mutual fund industry …
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optimal, their marginal benefit of addressing externalities should equal their marginal cost of distorting risk-sharing. These … externalities that would rationalize existing regulations as optimal. I conduct a revealed-preference exercise using this portfolio … and test whether the recovered externalities are sensible. I find that the signs of existing CIP violations are …
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This paper develops a simple model of a polluting industry and an innovating firm. The polluting industry is faced with regulation and costly abatement. Regulation may be taxes or marketable permits. The innovating firm invests in R&D and develops technologies which reduce the cost of pollution...
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importance in controlling harmful externalities. I compare the tax and liability here in theory and suggest that the conclusions … harmful externalities, its actual use has been limited, mainly to the domain of pollution. Liability, in contrast, has great …
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