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A large body of recent empirical work on inflation dynamics documents that current real variables (like unemployment or output gaps) have little explanatory power for future inflation. Motivated by these findings, I explore the properties of a wide class of models in which inflation expectations...
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market. The game is designed in such a way that a stable equilibrium configuration exists and does not depend on conditions … such as initial configuration or order of move. We test whether the theoretical equilibrium is obtained under experimental … find that players are remarkably good at attaining a stable equilibrium configuration, which happens in 86% of the games …
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technologies. Equilibrium extraction is too large and comes too early for public resources, but the opposite is true for private …
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can withdraw from the market after initial contract offers have been observed. We show that a subgame perfect equilibrium … always exists and that, in fact, when withdrawal is costless, the set of subgame perfect equilibrium outcomes may correspond … robust equilibrium outcome of our game. This outcome is always constrained efficient and involves cross-subsidization from …
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that the regime survived past attacks. This interaction also generates interesting equilibrium properties, such as the …
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This paper examines the ability of a policy maker to control equilibrium outcomes in an environment where market … policy are dictated by self-fulfilling market expectations. Despite equilibrium multiplicity, robust policy predictions can …
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An extensive experimental literature has documented miscoordination in establishing cooperative relationships when they can be supported in indefinitely repeated games: some people systematically try to cooperate, while others do not. The literature has had little success in finding personal...
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We propose a model to study when an intermediate action can serve as a "stepping stone" that enables the elimination of a harmful norm. While the intermediate action may facilitate the first "step", it may also become a new norm. We derive intuitive conditions for stepping stones, which depend...
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strategic uncertainty uniquely selects an equilibrium, where those entering from rows have precedence over those already in … East-priority equilibrium proves most vulnerable to behavioral breakdown, while the alternating equilibrium exhibits …
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Strategic models of legislative bargaining predict that proposers can extract high shares of economic surplus by identifying and exploiting weak coalition partners. However, strength and weakness can be difficult to assess even with relatively simple bargaining protocols. We evaluate...
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