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test an idea from relational contracting theory that informal relationships can substitute for formal enforcement through …
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Focusing on the interaction between national brands and private labels, this paper has two main empirical contributions: i) a simultaneous system of demand (share), price and expenditure equations is estimated, and ii) differences in the structure of the local geographic market are incorporated...
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Prices for nearly all basic commodity rose at unprecedented rates throughout early 2008, only to fall nearly as fast as financial markets and global economies began to collapse. Rising food prices in 2008 led to concerns that commodity price spikes would lead to more general food inflation, but...
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ökonomischen wie auch nicht-ökonomischen Modelle wird die mikroökonomische Theorie der Insitutionenökonomik, hier insbesondere des … surveying the transaction cost theory.// With alteration of mass production of standardised products into assembly of highly …
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This dissertation empirically studies demand complementarities in automobile purchases using newly collected Japanese household-level panel data, Keio Household Panel Survey. It is motivated by the observation that approximately one third of Japanese households own more than one automobile and...
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I provide new evidence on the failure of the Q-theory. The Q-theory implies the state-by-state equivalence of stock and … the Q-theory. This paper also proposes a rational explanation for this finding. A general equilibrium model with … interpreted as evidence for irrational markets since it cannot be reconciled with the Q-theory of investment. …
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Empirically, the conditional volatility of aggregate consumption growth varies over time. While many papers test the consumption CAPM based on realized consumption growth, little is known about how the time-variation of consumption growth volatility affects asset prices. We show that in a model...
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A firm seeks to raise capital in credit markets to fund risky operating activities. The firm has private information about the future cash flows from such activities. Firm owners delegate operating decisions to a manager who privately learns further information about the distribution of those...
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While aggregate earnings should affect aggregate stock returns, standard portfolio theory predicts that the cross …
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The question we ask is: within the set of a three-period-lived OLG economies with a stochastic endowment process, a stochastic dividend process, and sequentially incomplete complete markets, under what set of conditions may a set of government transfers dynamically Pareto dominate the laissez...
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