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This paper addresses the nature, formalization, and neural bases of (affective) social ties and discusses the relevance of ties for health economics. A social tie is defined as an affective weight attached by an individual to the well-being of another individual (‘utility interdependence’)....
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This paper assesses the effects of applying VAT or a sales tax on (intermediate or final) sales of the financial sector. It uses a CGE Model calibrated for a small open economy. It highlights the differentiated sectoral and redistributional effects of these taxes and shows the importance of the...
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We analyse the impact of increased outside opportunities brought to consumers by access to a global market on local market performance under monopoly versus oligopoly. If consumers have to choose once where to shop we show that under all forms of organizing the local market, increased...
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This paper offers an informational explanation for asset price booms and crashes. If market fundamentals change, but the length of this process of change is unknown, market participants try to learn about it by observing market outcomes. This learning generates a boom and a crash, which we call...
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introduced by the presence of moral hazard naturally depends on the information structure in the economy; it is cheaper to induce … correct incentives in a society which possesses better ex-post information. The degree of ex-post information depends on the … number of projects and entrepreneurs in the economy; the more projects, the better the information. This implies that in the …
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We develop a model of search among substitutes for the best combination of commodity variant and price, in which the structure of search costs can be manipulated by the suppliers of these variants, e.g. by joining an existing market or opening a new one. We analyse the subgame perfect equilibria...
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Incomplete information in the international market creates difficulty in matching agents with productive opportunities … not be eliminated and domestic resource supplies may have excessive influence on domestic resource prices. Information … at the same time they may hurt those excluded from the preferential information channels. When ties are denser between …
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Market thinness can be an important determinant of the riskiness of stock returns, because it reduces the reliability of stock prices as predictors of future dividends. This paper analyses the relationship between market size and risk as the outcome of rational expectations equilibrium in a...
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information is endogenous, and jointly determined with policy opinions. We therefore estimate a causal effect of information, with … effect of better information on the willingness to accept reforms that reduce the generosity of the pension system. Finally … we do not find that exposure to media coverage of pension issues significantly improves information, possibly because …
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This Paper analyses the effect of a possible takeover on information flows and on the terms of trade in business …
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