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Operating overheads are widespread and lead to concentrated bursts of activity. To transfer resources between active and idle spells, agents demand financial assets. Futures contracts and lotteries are unsuitable, as they have substantial overheads of their own. We show that money - under...
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Die Themen der Makroökonomie (Wachstum, Konjunktur, Beschäftigung, Inflation, Wechselkurse, Aktienkurse usw.) sind diejenigen der Ökonomie, die am meisten allgegenwärtig sind. Die Zusammenhänge dieser Fragen zu verstehen, ist die Hauptmotivation von Studienanfängern der...
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We study alternative institutional arrangements for the determination of monetary policy in a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents, where monetary policy has redistributive effects. Inflation is determined by a policy board using either simple-majority voting, supermajority...
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Die Themen der Makroökonomie (Wachstum, Konjunktur, Beschäftigung, Inflation, Wechselkurse, Aktienkurse usw.) sind diejenigen der Ökonomie, die am meisten allgegenwärtig sind. Die Zusammenhänge dieser Fragen zu verstehen, ist die Hauptmotivation von Studienanfängern der...
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The assumption that payoff-relevant information is observable but not verifiable is important for many core results in contract, organizational and institutional economics. However, subgame-perfect implementation (SPI) mechanisms - which are based on off-equilibrium arbitration clauses that...
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To counter the sharp appreciation of the Swiss franc that set in in the wake of the European sovereign debt crisis, on September 6, 2011, the Swiss National Bank announced to enforce a minimum EUR/CHF exchange rate of CHF 1.20. We find that the simple, though elegant model for the exchange rate...
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Contrary to most of the literature, which focuses only on the level of investment in innovation, this paper examines both the variety of research projects undertaken and the amount of duplication of research. A characterization of the equilibrium market portfolio of R&D projects and the socially...
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In this study, I provide evidence that the educational achievement of second-generation immigrants in German-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring's educational achievement seems to be much more...
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This paper analyzes two-stage rank-order tournaments. A principal decides (i) how to spread prize money across the two periods, (ii) how to weigh performance in the two periods when awarding the second-period prize, and (iii) whether to reveal performance after the … first period. The...
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