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Resource misallocation can lower aggregate total factor productivity (TFP).We use microdata on manufacturing establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India versus the United States. We measure sizable gaps in marginal products of labor and capital across...
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Capital.” After a series of failed attempts to integrate time into production theory, in 1958 Armen Alchian proposed a method … horizonal theory of price. Jack Hirshleifer (1962) saw Alchian’s (1958) frame as a threat to neoclassical theory, declaring his …’s papers are thus extended into an integral theory of planning horizons, as a formalization of Herbert Simon’s notion of …
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Market mechanisms in the era of globalization associated with the paradigm of the market economy along with the development of socialist economy, capitalist, or mixed. The market mechanism is a problem when the inefficient allocation of resources, market imperfections, and the cause of economic...
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a special case of a broader and general theory and therefore more powerful as economic policy is concerned. These … insights are vital, to understand Keynesian economics and its subsequent contributions in economic theory and economic policy. …
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Discussion of "Lumpy Price Adjustments: A Microeconometric Analysis" by Emmanuel Dhyne, Catherine Fuss, Hashem Pesaran, and Patrick Sevestre (2007); Presented at the Spring 2007 Conference of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Banque De France on "Micro-Data and Macroeconomic Implications," April...
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Discussion of "The Pricing Behavior of Firms in the Euro Area: New Survey Evidence" by S. Fabiani, M. Druant, I. Hernando, C. Kwapil, B. Landau, C. Loupias, F. Martins, T. Mathä, R. Sabbatini, H. Stahl, and A. Stockman (2004); Presented at the Inflation Persistence Network (IPN) Conference on...
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This is a discussion of Ratfai (2007), presented at the 2007 Macroeconomics Workshop of the Rimini Center for Economic Analysis on "The Macroeconomics of Price Setting," May 10-11, 2007, University of Bologna, Rimini, Italy.
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We document an asymmetry in the rigidity of 9-ending prices relative to non-9-ending prices. Consumers have difficulty noticing higher prices if they are 9-ending, or noticing price-increases if the new prices are 9-ending, because 9-endings are used as a signal for low prices. Price setters...
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Using the information on 629 companies listed at Karachi stock exchange over a period of 40 years (1975-2014), this study finds out the effect of monetary policy and industrial dynamics over the hazard rate of both the financial and non-financial companies. The study concludes that monetary...
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In January 2007, U.K. Government debt to GDP stood at 32.5%. By December 2019 it had grown to 89.5% and the latest data from September 2020 show a government debt level of just over £2 trillion, while its debt to GDP level did increase to 103.5%. The Quantitative Easing program by the Bank of...
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