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What drives the relationship between inflation and price dispersion? : market power vs. price rigidity
Becker, Sascha - 2011
Recent monetary search and Calvo-type models predict that the relationship between inflation and price dispersion is U …-shaped, implying an optimal rate of inflation above zero. Moreover, monetary search models emphasize a critical dependence of the real … effects of inflation on sellers' market power, whereas Calvotype models suggest that the degree of price rigidity …
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What drives taxi drivers? : a field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2011
Credence goods are characterized by informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers that invite fraudulent behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to measure different types of fraud and to examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306313
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What drives taxi drivers? : a field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2011 - This version: 28th April 2011
Credence goods are characterized by informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers that invite fraudulent behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to measure different types of fraud and to examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737529
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What drives taxi drivers? : a field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2011
Credence goods are characterized by informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers that invite fraudulent behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to measure different types of fraud and to examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127565
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What drives taxi drivers? : a field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2011 - This version: 28. April 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009542470
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What drives taxi drivers? : a field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - In: The review of economic studies 80 (2013) 3, pp. 876-891
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010203294
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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2011
Credence goods are characterized by informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers that invite fraudulent behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to measure different types of fraud and to examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124684
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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2011
Credence goods are characterized by informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers that invite fraudulent behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to measure different types of fraud and to examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125139
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Sectoral inflation persistence, market concentration and imperfect common knowledge
Kato, Ryo; Okuda, Tatsushi; Tsuruga, Takayuki - 2020
Previous studies have stressed that in ation dynamics exhibit a substantial disper- sion across sectors. Using US producer price data, we present evidence that sectoral in ation persistence is negatively correlated with market concentration, which is diffi- cult to reconcile with the prediction...
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Sino-LAC Ties : Trade Relationships and Asymmetric Dependency
Devadason, Evelyn Shyamala - 2015
Previous studies have emphasized the asymmetry in the Sino-LAC partnership, solely based on their trade exchanges. This paper extends the boundaries of understanding structural asymmetries in the Sino-LAC trade, by considering unequal opportunities in this partnership. The latter is accounted...
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