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Advertisements provide consumers with knowledge about private products, whereas political information is required to provide voters with knowledge of public issues. Modern information technologies and globalisation are increasing the exposure of individuals to information. Goods advertising is...
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between two building blocks: specialization in non-tradables and financial market imperfections. We show that if a country has … generates significant volatility in the demand for non-tradables. However, when the non-resource tradable sector disappears, the … economy becomes much more volatile, because shocks to the demand for non-tradables - possibly associated with shocks to …
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This paper addresses the consumption-real exchange rate anomaly. International real business cycle models based on complete financial markets predict a unitary correlation between the real exchange rate and the ratio of home to foreign consumption when subjected to supply side shocks. In the...
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between two building blocks: specialization in non-tradables and financial market imperfections. We show that if a country has … generates significant volatility in the demand for non-tradables. However, when the non-resource tradable sector disappears, the … economy becomes much more volatile, because shocks to the demand for non-tradables - possibly associated with shocks to …
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We develop a model that combines monopolistic competition on goods markets with skill-type heterogeneity on the labor market to analyze the effects of trade and migration on welfare and inequality. Skill-type heterogeneity and partial specificity to firms' endogenously chosen skill requirements...
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We argue that the narrative of variety-induced gains from trade in differentiated goods needs revision. If producing differentiated varieties of a good requires differentiated skills and if the work force is heterogeneous in these skills, then firms are likely to have monopsony power. We show...
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