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Macroeconomists have traditionally ignored the behavior of temporary price markdowns ("sales") by retailers. Although … sales are common in the micro price data, they are assumed to be unrelated to macroeconomic phenomena and generally filtered … out. We challenge this view. First, using the 1996 - 2012 data set of the U.K. CPI monthly price quotes, we document a …
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In this article, the discussion on quality levels in the monetary search theoretical model is extended. By having quality levels endogenously determined, we found that whether money holders have quality preferences is crucial to the results. While the effect of the fraction of money on quality...
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How do near-zero interest rates affect optimal bank capital regulation and risk-taking? I study this question in a dynamic model, in which forward-looking banks compete imperfectly for deposit funding, but households do not accept negative deposit rates. When deposit rates are constrained by the...
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Empirical studies show that most franchise chains use dual distribution - or a plural form franchise system - characterized by the coexistence of franchised units and company-owned retail units in the same distribution network. Therefore, this paper focuses on dual distribution and considers the...
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Following Driscoll and Holden (2004), I model forward-looking workers who consider it unfair if a wage adjustment fails to match past inflation. However, the present paper proposes a much larger effect by using the job finding rate as the measure of workers' opportunities outside the firm rather...
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the long-run. -- Price stickiness ; long-run Phillips curve ; inequality aversion …
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