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private suppliers have market power. We do this by studying the staggered rollout of hundreds of government milk "ration … supplied milk by 2.4% and increased household consumption. To compare direct provision with budget-neutral alternatives, we … larger consumer surplus than milk vouchers and unrestricted cash transfers. …
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Consumers use price of a product both as a signal of product quality and as a monetary constraint in choosing it. Consequently, price has two distinct roles - informational and allocative - in the evaluation of a product. In this paper, we test the validity of a research approach proposed by...
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Retailers have been criticized for heavily relying on odd prices although their advantage over even prices has not been convincingly proven. In this paper we argue that such behavior does not have to stem solely from tradition, but may be seen as a rational way of dealing with uncertainty. We...
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We study an equilibrium asset pricing model with several Lucas (1978) trees subject toevent risk, that is, the …
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In this paper, we build a bridge between different reduced-form approaches to pricing defaultable claims. In particular … of Collin Dufresne et al. [8], wepropose a simple pricing formula under an equivalent change of measure.Two processes …
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Changing noise levels have a severe impact on house prices and through the leveragein nancing on households wealth. This risk is essential for houses close to airportswith uncertain aircraft regimes. We design and calibrate real options based on aircraftnoise to hedge against noise risk. The...
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We introduce a framework for analyzing the interplay between credit risk and collateralmarket risk on loan pricing. To …. The framework allows usto develop semi-analytical pricing formulae for loans where the borrower's creditworthinessand …
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prediction and pricing formulas for the future factorvalues and their proxies, when the size n of the class is large. Up to order …
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We develop a convenient structural framework for the joint model-ing of credit spreads, stock prices, stock options and basket creditderivatives, using a multivariate structural ¯rm value model withskewed asset returns. We show that our setting successfully addressesseveral empirical facts,...
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We find that price and earnings momentum are pervasive features of international equitymarkets when controlling for data snooping biases. For European countries, we find that pricemomentum is subsumed by earnings momentum on an aggregate level. However, this rationaledoes not apply to each and...
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