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This paper presents a monetary-theoretic model to study the implications of networks' collection of personal identifying data and data security on each other's incidence and costs of identity theft. To facilitate trade, agents join clubs (networks) that compile and secure data. Too much data...
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A controversial aspect of payment cards has been the 'no-surcharge rule.' This rule, which is part of the contract between the card provider and a merchant, states that the merchant cannot charge a customer who pays by card more than a customer who pays by cash. In this paper we consider the...
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The aim of this paper is to study asset reallocation in financial markets subject to search, bargaining, and … consequence, a positive liquidity differential between money and real assets emerges, resulting in an increased demand for fiat … money, as observed since the eruption of the global financial crisis. A policy intervention replacing information sensitive …
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information to the model of [Berentsen and Waller, 2011], a divide between an interest rate policy and a money stock policy …
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This paper challenges the conventional view according to which disinflations in LAC-even from low and moderate peaks-have been carried out at no cost to output. After suggesting a new methodology that allows for long-lived effects and inflation inertia when measuring costs of disinflations,...
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reduce excessive asset price inflation by reducing the amount of credit money and investment flowing from financial …
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decrease as the level of earnings rises. The framework is a search equilibrium model where wages are determined by Nash … bargaining between firms and workers, job search intensity is endogenous and workers are heterogeneous. The analysis suggests …
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uncertain. We identify two conflicting effects. On the one hand, reducing the consumer's cost of search for quality exacerbates …, makes investment less attractive. This discourages investment, leading to lower quality. We show that reducing the search … cost leads to higher quality if the initial level of the search cost is sufficiently high but may lead to lower quality if …
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We analyze agents' decisions to act as producers or intermediaries using equilibrium search theory. Extending previous …
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This paper considers a frictional market where buyers and sellers, with unit demand and supply, search for trading … opportunities. The analysis focuses on explicit search frictions, allows for two-sided incomplete information, and puts no … restriction on agent heterogeneity. In this context, a non-trivial, full trade search equilibrium is shown to exist, equilibria …
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