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Subprime consumer credit demand
Alan, Sule; Dumitrescu, Ruxandra; Loranth, Gyongyi - 2011
We test the interest rate sensitivity of subprime credit card borrowers using a unique panel data set from a UK credit card company. What is novel about our contribution is that we were given details of a randomized interest rate experiment conducted by the lender between October 2006 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640638
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Firms' investment decisions in response to demand and price uncertainty
Fuss, Catherine; Vermeulen, Philip - 2004
We estimate the effect of demand and price uncertainty on firms’ investment decisions from a panel of manufacturing … firms. Uncertainty measures are derived from firms’ subjective qualitative expectations. They are close to their theoretical … counterparts, the variances of future demand and price shocks. We find that demand uncertainty depresses planned and realized …
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Distributional dynamics under smoothly state-dependent pricing
Costain, James; Nakov, Anton - 2011
Starting from the assumption that firms are more likely to adjust their prices when doing so is more valuable, this paper analyzes monetary policy shocks in a DSGE model with firm-level heterogeneity. The model is calibrated to retail price microdata, and inflation responses are decomposed into...
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