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This study is a theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of time and money costs of labor market participation on married women's supply behavior. The existence of fixed costs implies that individuals are not willing to work less than some minimum number of hours, termed reservation...
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and import price dynamics in the aftermath of large devaluations. In particular, desired inventory adjustment in response … to a sudden, large increase in the relative price of imported goods creates a short-term trade implosion, an immediate …, temporary drop in the value and number of distinct varieties imported, as well as a slow increase in the retail price of …
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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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Much of the variation in international trade volume is driven by firms' extensive margin decision to participate in …
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cost to observe the determinants of the current profit maximizing price, and hence observe them infrequently. To generate …
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also find that policy prescriptions based on static models can predict a loss from trade reform when our dynamic model …
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There is wide dispersion in pharmaceutical prices across countries with comparable quality standards. Under monopoly, off-patent and generic drug prices are at least four times higher in the United States than in comparable English-speaking high income countries. With five or more competitors,...
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competitive industries, the negative relation between past returns and current leverage will be attenuated. Theory suggests that …
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This paper considers the efficiency of financial intermediation and the propagation of business cycle shocks in a model of long-term relationships between entrepreneurs and lenders lenders may be constrained in their short-run access to liquidity. When liquidity is low, relationships are subject...
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develop a theory of the mechanism, provide empirical evidence, evaluate the ability of the quantitative theory to match the …
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