In the automobile sector, it is a usual practice that independent carmakers engage in the development and production of a common car model, the so-called twin cars. From the point of view of the marketing literature, we claim that carmakers should not charge different brand premia on separate...

Likelihood ratio tests for restrictions on contegrating vectors are asymptotically X2 distributed. For some values of the parameters this asymptotic distribution does not give a good approximation to the finite sample distribution. In this paper we derive the Bartlett correction factor for the...

Trade credit is an important source of finance for firms, but it has typically been excluded from the analysis of the credit channel. In this paper we examine a panel of 16,000 manufacturing firm records for the years 1990 through 1999. We show that the uptake of trade credit varies with the...

Recent empirical work identi.es two main channels through which consumers benefit from trade. Trade liberalization lowers prices, while it raises product variety. This paper develops the first model that connects both channels and interprets their interaction. It shows that heterogeneity in firm...

Rational investors perceive correctly the value of financial information. Investment in information is therefore rewarded with a higher Sharpe ratio. Overcon.dent investors overstate the quality of their own information, and thus attain a lower Sharpe ratio. We contrast the implications of the...

The authors study the employment and distributional effects of regulating (reducing) working time in a general equilibrium model with search-matching frictions.

This paper builds a baseline two-country model of real and monetary transmission in the presence of optimal international price discrimination by firms. Distributing traded goods to consumers requires nontradables, intensive in local labor. Because of distribution services, the price elasticity...

Concert tickets can either be sold at a single price or at multiple prices corresponding to different seating categories. We study the relationship between price discrimination and revenue by examining variations in the number of seating categories across concert, tour, artist, location, and...

We analyse the relative performance of the IMF, OECD and EC in forecasting the government deficit, as a ratio to GDP, for the G7 countries. Interesting differences across countries emerge, sometimes supporting the hypothesis of an asymmetric loss function (i.e. of a preferrence for...