This paper presents a test to discriminate among collusive and competitive behavior by producers of exhaustible resources. In contrast to previous studies (Griffin, 1985; Jones, 1990), which are based on static models, our approach is based on of the dynamic implications of the optimization problem...

We provide evidence suggesting that the cross-sectional distributions of U.S. consumption and its growth rate obey the power law in both the upper and lower tails, with exponents approximately equal to 4. Consequently, high order moments are unlikely to exist, and the GMM estimation of Euler...

We estimate the elasticity of intertemporal substitution (EIS) - the elasticity of expected consumption growth with respect to variation in the real interest rate - using subjective expectations from the newly released FRBNY Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE). This dataset is unique, since it...

Optimal rank-order tournaments have traditionally been studied using a first-order approach. The present analysis relies instead on the construction of an "upper envelope" over all incentive compatibility conditions. It turns out that the first-order approach is not innocuous. For example, in...