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Global games of regime change -- that is, coordination games of incomplete information in which a status quo is …
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We show that inefficiencies from having separate markets to correct an environmental externality are significantly mitigated when firms participate in an integrated product market. Firms take into account the distribution of externality prices and reallocate output from markets with high prices...
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How does lie detection constrain the potential for one person to persuade another to change her action? We consider a model of Bayesian persuasion in which the Receiver can detect lies with positive probability. We show that the Sender lies more when the lie detection probability increases. As...
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When is it possible for one person to persuade another to change her action? We take a mechanism design approach to this question. Taking preferences and initial beliefs as given, we introduce the notion of a persuasion mechanism: a game between Sender and Receiver defined by an information...
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This paper examines issues in the current debate over coordination between fiscal and monetary policies. Section I1 … uses the traditional targets-instruments approach to assess the potential gains from greater coordination. Since greater … coordination is often equated with looser money and tighter fiscal policy, two econometric models of the economy are used to …
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General medical care in the United States has historically been provided by physicians who care for their patients in both ambulatory and hospital settings. Care is now increasingly divided between physicians specializing in hospital care (hospitalists) and ambulatory-based care primary care...
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coordination costs fell during this period. We then propose a "hierarchical production function" in which output is the product of … coordination costs fell broadly and steadily during this period, so that hiring one's first associate leveraged a partner's skill …
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need for policy coordination: the specific choice of monetary policy limits the set of fiscal policies consistent with …
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expect more coordination outside of their local areas are more responsive to the effects of time zones …
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transparency is optimal. This is because more transparency facilitates more effective coordination, which is valuable from a social … ambiguity becomes optimal if there is a high risk that more transparency will lead to coordination failures …
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