Price stickiness—the tendency of prices to remain constant despite changes in supply and demand—has been linked to firms’ unwillingness to pay the costs entailed in setting, implementing, and advertising new prices. However, there is little consensus on the size and importance of these...

How well does competitive theory explain the outcome in experimental markets? The authors examined the results of a large number of classroom trading experiments that used a pit-trading design found in Experiments with Economic Principles, an introductory economics textbook by Bergstrom and...

Se analiza la evolución del empleo en España en el período 1975-2004, y se estiman varios modelos econométricos de empleo bajo diferentes enfoques teóricos. El enfoque seleccionado, corresponde a un modelo de desequilibrio que tiene en cuenta factores de oferta y demanda, y en ese contexto...

In this paper, I find that the imbalance between buy and sell orders explains most of the stock price changes. I then show that this effect is driven largely by uninformed price pressure, and not only by private information. To obtain that result, I first establish that causality goes from...