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product menus and prices. When product menus are endogenous, however, tests for price discrimination may be biased by the fact … that unobservables affecting costs or demand may jointly determine product menus and prices leading one to falsely infer … attributes, product menus, and prices. …
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This paper emphasizes the notion that model features that contribute to endogenous price rigidity under staggered price setting lower the elasticity of marginal cost with respect to output, and these same model features tend to generate equilibrium indeterminacy, or "sunspot fluctuations", under...
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equity issuers. We investigate these opposing views with data on IPO firms that issued in 1983, a hot market, and 1988, a … cold market. We find that the two sets of firms have similar operating performance, but stock returns are worse for firms … that went public in the hot market. Our results are largely consistent with investor overoptimism in hot markets, but not …
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Output growth is negatively correlated with inflation, and detrended output is positively correlated with inflation, in the major North American and European economies. In addition, output growth and detrended output lead inflation. I explore the consistency of these correlations with three...
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