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We put forward a model of private goods with externalities. Agents derive benefit from communicating with each other. In order to communicate they need to have a language in common. Learning languages is costly. In this setting no individually rational and feasible Groves mechanism exists. We...
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We provide an information-based theory of matching efficiency fluctuations. Rationally inattentive firms have limited …-cyclical acceptance rates drive a wedge between meeting and hiring rates, explaining fluctuations in matching efficiency. Quantitatively …, our model replicates the joint behavior of unemployment rates and matching efficiency observed since the Great Recession. …
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A version of the Second Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics that applies to a money-free environment, in which a set of indivisible goods needs to be matched to some set of agents, is established. In such environments, 'trade' can be identified with the set of hierarchical exchange...
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preferences. I investigate this question in an environment of matching allocation problems. There are two reasons for doing so … in any which way to obtain results on the welfare properties of trade. Secondly, some matching allocation mechanisms have …
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We consider optional TOU (time-of-use) pricing for residential consumers as an alternative to a single TOU or flat rate structure offered by a publicly regulated electricity supplier. A general equilibrium model is developed and used to explore and quantify the effects of optional pricing on...
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