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In modeling expectation formation, economic agents are usually viewed as forming expectations adaptively or in accordance with some rationality postulate. We offer an alternative nonlinear model where agents exchange their opinions and information with each other. Such a model yields multiple...
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Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
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bubbles, a bubble itself is not sufficient to cause real-side disruption. What central bankers should learn from Japan …
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It has been widely assumed that there was a bubble in the U.S. housing market after1999.This paper analyzes the extent to which that was true. We define a bubble as: (1) a regime shift that is characterized by a change in the properties of deviations from the fundamentals of house price growth,...
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learning. The speculative trade is understood as an equilibrium outcome, in which agents who buy the asset pay higher price for … different prior beliefs, which are concentrated on disjoint sets. This prevents them from learning. The resulting permanent … learning. In Essay 1, I set up a general equilibrium model of trading with differential beliefs and learning. The dividend …
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update expectations by Bayesian learning based on observations from their own lifetimes. In this model, the stock price … can be approximated by a representative-agent model with constant-gain learning, where the gain parameter is related to …
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The established theories on the performance of the foreign firm in host country markets raise a puzzle: on the one hand, foreign ventures may be more likely to possess certain advantages that could help them outperform local competitors. On the other hand, foreign ventures suffer a disadvantage...
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