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approximates Harris' (1954) market-potential function. The estimation results show how far demand linkages extend across space and …
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We consider nonparametric identification in models of differentiated products markets, using only market level … models widely used in applied work. We allow for product/market-specific unobservables, endogenous product characteristics (e … marginal costs nonparametrically, allow for unobserved firm heterogeneity, and nest a variety of equilibrium oligopoly models …
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Do scale economies contribute to our understanding of international trade? Do international trade flows encode information about the extent of scale economies? To answer these questions we examine the large class of general equilibrium theories that imply Helpman-Krugman variants of the Vanek...
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autarky to bond market integration and equity market integration. Fi- nancial integration leads to a significant increase in … financial market autarky. Thus, a trade-off emerges between the probability of crises and the severity of crises. Financial …
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that, on the investment in risky projects, welfare and growth. We find that the welfare gain of financial market openness … is that the welfare gain from integration is not drastically reduced by the presence of goods market imperfections …, modeled as a cost of transferring goods from one country to the other. Hence, financial market integration may be a worthwhile …
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We examine the interplay between market structure and the form that commodity taxation should take in a general … equilibrium model in which firms produce differentiated products and so are able to exert market power. Our analysis takes account … of two important recent developments that affect market structure and so the appropriate design and effectiveness of …
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We propose a unified model of limited market integration, asset-price determination, leveraging, and contagion …-cost strategies. The capital allocated to high-leverage strategies may be vulnerable even to small changes in market-access costs …, which can lead to discontinuous price drops, de-leveraging, and portfolio-flow reversals. Moreover, the market is subject to …
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financial market from international financial shocks. The model also suggests that traditional measures of capital mobility such …
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This paper presents a two-country extension of Lucas' (1988) work on the effects of cash-in-advance constraints in asset markets on the pricing of financial assets. The model is one where there exists some degree of separation between the goods markets and the asset markets and money is used for...
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The securitization of fixed-rate mortgages suggests that the FRA/VA market was fully integrated with capital markets by … the early l98Os and that the conventional market moved toward integration during the l98Os. Assuming full integration of … 1981-88 period. The price is then set equal to the new-issue price and, based upon the preferred equation, the perfect-market …
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