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Economists have traditionally viewed futures prices as fully informative about future economic activity and asset prices. We argue that open interest could be more informative than futures prices in the presence of hedging demand and limited risk absorption capacity in futures markets. We find...
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This paper presents a new approach to assess the role of price mismeasurement in the productivity slowdown. I invert …-Douglas production function, output price mismeasurement only should affect the latter. Contrary to the mismeasurement hypothesis, I find …
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Multi-sector sticky price models have surprising implications when durable goods have flexible prices. While in actual … flexible price industry for which the comovement problem is relevant. The underlying reason for the comovement problem is the …
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The menu-cost interpretation of sticky prices implies that the probability of a price change should depend on the past … history of prices and fundamentals only through the gap between the current price and the frictionless price. We find that … menu-cost model as a literal description of these firms' behavior, arguing instead that price stickiness arises from …
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Using the complete history of regular quarterly and annual filings by U.S. corporations from 1995-2014, we show that when firms make an active change in their reporting practices, this conveys an important signal about future firm operations. Changes to the language and construction of financial...
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and relative price informativeness in dynamic environments with rich heterogeneity across investors (regarding signals … and non-stationary asset payoffs. We implement our methodology empirically, finding stock-specific measures of price … informativeness for U.S. stocks. We find a right-skewed distribution of price informativeness, measured in the form of the Kalman gain …
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(RFS). Understanding the price dynamics of the D4 RIN is important for understanding the RFS because its price sets a … ceiling on the ethanol RIN (D6) and because some observers have suggested that RIN price fluctuations are too large to be … explained by economic theory. We use option pricing theory to develop a model of the D4 RIN in terms of its economic …
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of the failed Waxman-Markey bill. First, the MAC is revealed by the price of traded permits. Second, the permit price is …
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Trade in intermediate inputs allows firms to lower their costs of production by using better, cheaper, or novel inputs from abroad. Quantifying the aggregate impact of input trade, however, is challenging. As importing firms differ markedly in how much they buy in foreign markets, results based...
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We develop simple tests for endogenous prices arising from omitted demand factors in discrete choice models. Our approach only requires one to locate testing proxies that have some correlation with the omitted factors when prices are endogenous. We use the difference between prices and their...
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