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Evaluating the impact of transport infrastructure meets a major challenge since rail lines are not randomly located. We use the natural experiment offered by the opening and progressive extension of the Regional Express Rail (RER) between 1970 and 2000 in the Paris metropolitan region, and in...
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Behavioral economics presents a "paternalistic" rationale for a benevolent government's intervention. We consider an economy where the only “distortion” is agents’ time inconsistency. We study the desirability of various forms of collective action, ones pertaining to costly commitment and...
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When a supply and demand model is recursive, with errors uncorrelated across the two equations, ordinary least squares …
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do not occur ceteris paribus. This makes it necessary to explicitly account for the demand and supply shocks underlying …
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UK to (i) document these differences; (ii) estimate a demand system for food and nutrients, and (iii) simulate …
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improve quality is that providers will face higher demand if they improve their quality. We test this crucial assumption in an …
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This paper provides evidence that learning about demand is an important driver of firms' dynamics. We present a simple … model with Bayesian learning in which firms are uncertain about their idiosyncratic demand parameter in each of the markets … their beliefs following a new demand shock, the younger they are. To test this learning mechanism, we make use of a specific …
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We model the demand-pressure effect on prices when options cannot be perfectly hedged. The model shows that demand … option. Similarly, the demand pressure increases the price of any other option by an amount proportional to the covariance of … show that demand-pressure effects contribute to well-known option-pricing puzzles. Indeed, time-series tests show that …
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In this paper I develop the Discrete Choice Analytically Flexible (DCAF) model of demand for differentiated products …. DCAF relaxes the constraints imposed on the matrix of own- and cross-price elasticities of demand by popular analytic …-price elasticities of demand. Under well defined constraints on the parameters, which may or may not be imposed in estimation, DCAF is …
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between mid-2003 and mid-2008 was driven by repeated positive shocks to the demand for all industrial commodities, reflecting … different econometric methodology. Rather than inferring demand shocks from an econometric model, we utilize a direct measure of … global demand shocks based on revisions of professional real GDP growth forecasts. We show that recent forecast surprises …
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