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Hillinger, Claude - 2007

derive these measures are largely unsatisfactory. The axiomatic theory of indexes does not make clear which economic problem …. For example, the theory of the CPI is usually developed for a single consumer with homothetic preferences and then applied … to a large aggregate of diverse consumers with non-homothetic preferences. In this paper I develop a unitary theory that …

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Measurement in Economics and Social Science

Hillinger, Claude - 2007

separation of theory from the quantitative measures that are computed in practice: price and quantity indexes, consumer surplus … embedded in a satisfactory economic theory, free from unreasonable restrictions. It is the Törnqvist index as an approximation …

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Central Bank's Action and Communication

Baeriswyl, Romain - 2007

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the welfare effect of public information. In an environment characterized by imperfect common knowledge and strategic complementarities, Morris and Shin (2002)argue that noisy public information may be detrimental to welfare because public...

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An Empirical Test of the Reder Hypothesis

Ludsteck, Johannes; Haupt, Harald - 2007

A firm that faces insufficient supply of labor can either increase the wage offer to attract more applicants, or reduce the hiring standard to enlarge the pool of potential employees, or do both. This simultaneous adjustment of wages and hiring standards in response to changes in market...

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Creditor Passivity: The Effects of Bank Competition and Institutions on the Strategic Use of Bankruptcy Filings

Hainz, Christa - 2007

Why do banks remain passive? In a model of bank-firm relationship we study the trade-off a bank faces when having defaulting firms declared bankrupt. First, the bank receives a payoff if a firm is liquidated. Second, it provides information about a firm’s type to its competitors. Thereby,...

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Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments - An experimental study

Sutter, Matthias; Strassmair, Christina - 2007

We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals, compete for a prize there is a need for intra-team coordination in order to win the inter-team competition. Introducing communication in such situations may have ambiguous...

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Equal Sharing Rules in Partnerships

Bartling, Björn; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2007

Partnerships are the prevalent organizational form in many industries. Most partnerships share profits equally among the partners. Following Kandel and Lazear (1992) it is often argued that ``peer pressure'' mitigates the arising free-rider problem. This line of reasoning takes the equal sharing...

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Why were FIFA World Cup Tickets so cheap? Monopoly Pricing, Demand Quality and Two-Sided Markets

Eichhorn, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2007

We examine the pricing decision of a multi-product monopolist in a two-sided market where the type structure of buyers on one side of the market is an important determinant of profit on the other side. In this situation it might be optimal to set prices below the maximum sellout price and to...

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Dichotomous preferences and power set extensions

Arlegi, Ritxar; Dimitrov, Dinko - 2008

This paper is devoted to the study of how to extend a dichotomous partition of a universal set X into good and bad objects to an ordering on the power set of X. We introduce a family of rules that naturally take into account the number of good objects and the number of bad objects, and provide...

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Trend Extraction From Time Series With Structural Breaks and Missing Observations

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2008

Trend extraction from time series is often performed by using the filter proposed by Leser (1961), also known as the Hodrick-Prescott filter. Practical problems arise, however, if the time series contains structural breaks (as produced by German unification for German time series, for instance),...

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