This paper solves for the profit maximising strategy of a durable-goods monopolist when incoming demand varies over time. Each period, additional consumers enter the market; these consumers can then choose whether and when to purchase. We first characterise the consumer's utility maximisation...

We lay out an empirical and a theoretical model to analyze the effects of non-fundamental exchange rate volatility on economic activity and welfare. In the first part of the paper, the GARCH-SVARmodel is applied to measure empirically the effect of the conditional exogenous exchange rate...