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List Prices, Sale Prices, and Marketing Time : An Application to U.S. Housing Markets
Haurin, Donald R. - 2010
Many goods are marketed after first stating a list price, with the expectation that the eventual sales price will differ. In this paper we first present a simple model of search behavior that includes the seller setting a list price. Holding constant the mean of the buyers' distribution of...
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Social interactions in the labor market
Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Bishop, John A. - 2011
We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects increase labor supply and conformity effects make labor supply perfectly inelastic at a reference group...
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Managing self-confidence : theory and experimental evidence
Mobius, Markus; Niederle, Muriel; Niehaus, Paul; … - 2011 - This version: October 3, 2011
Evidence from social psychology suggests that agents process information about their own ability in a biased manner. This evidence has motivated exciting research in behavioral economics, but also garnered critics who point out that it is potentially consistent with standard Bayesian updating....
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Cities and the structure of social interactions : evidence from mobile phone data
Büchel, Konstantin; Ehrlich, Maximilian von - 2017
density rather generates a more efficient network in terms of matching and clustering. These differences in network structure …
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Habits and envy : what drives the consumption behavior of U.S. households?
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Schmid, Kai D. - 2013
In dieser Analyse schätzen wir den Einfluss von Gewohnheits-(Habits) gegenüber Vergleichsmotiven (Envy) zur Erklärung …In this paper we estimate the relevance of habits versus interpersonal comparisons for the consumption behavior of U … (PSID) covering the time span from 1999 to 2009. We find that both habits, measured as lagged consumption, and envy motives …
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Equilibrium dynamics in a class of one-sector endogenous growth models with external habits : an application of special functions
Gómez, Manuel A. - In: Journal of mathematical economics 51 (2014), pp. 50-54
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Addicted to debt : foreign purchases of U.S. Treasuries and the term premium
Kohn, David - 2016
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A region’s basic image as a measure of its attractiveness
Angelis, Vasilis; Dimaki, Katerina - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 2, pp. 7-33
The growth or decline of a region depends on its power to pull and retain both business and the right blend of people to run them. This pulling power depends on what we call the "Image" of the region, a variable which expresses the region's present state of development and future prospects and...
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Detecting informed trading activities in the options markets
Chesney, Marc; Crameri, Remo; Mancini, Loriano - 2011
We develop statistical methods to detect informed trading in options markets. We apply these methods to 31 companies from various sectors over 14 years analyzing approximately 9.6 million option prices. We find that option informed trading tends to cluster prior to certain events, takes place...
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Detecting informed trading activities in the options markets : appendix on subprime financial crisis
Chesney, Marc; Crameri, Remo; Mancini, Loriano - 2011
This appendix extends the empirical results in Chesney, Crameri, and Mancini (2011). Informed trading activities on put and call options are analyzed for 19 companies in the banking and insurance sectors from January 1996 to September 2009. Our empirical findings suggest that certain events such...
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