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Random encounters and information diffusion about product quality

Gabszewicz, Jean Jaskold; Marini, Marco; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2021

This paper explores how social interactions among consumers shape markets. In a two-country model, consumers meet and exchange information about the quality of the goods. As information spreads, the demands evolve, affecting the prices and quantities manufactured by profit-maximizing firms. We...

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Civic engagement in the Americas

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2018

This paper estimates the effect of voting eligibility on civic engagement measured along three dimensions: political motivation, political activities, and political knowledge. These outcomes originate in the AmericasBarometer 2004-2016 surveys of eligible voters. To identify the effects the...

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Exodus to public school : parent preferences for public schools in Peru

Elacqua, Gregory; Figueroa, Nicolás; Fontaine, Andrés; … - 2023

Due to an unprecedented rise in demand, in 2020 the Peruvian Ministry of Education implemented a centralized assignment mechanism that allowed thousands of students at various levels of education to move from the private to the public sector. In this paper, we empirically explore the...

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Multivariate term structure models with level and heteroskedasticity effects

Christiansen, Charlotte - 2002

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Building up social capital in a changing world : a network approach

Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2003

are found. Over time, the underlying payoffs randomly change, i.e. display some volatility , which leads agents to react …-run invariant behavior and obtain the following conclusions: (a) Only if payoff volatility is not too high can the society sustain a … dense social network. (b) The social architecture endogenously responds to increased volatility by becoming more cohesive …

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Price competition with information disparities in a vertically differentiated duopoly

Cavaliere, Alberto - 2004

In this paper we extend the model of vertical product differentiation to also consider information disparities about the extent of quality differences. Equilibrium prices turn out to depend not only on the share of informed consumers but also on uninformed consumers beliefs about quality...

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