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Lim, Cheng Hoon. "The UK housing market : theory and evidence." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320114.
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Nayyar, Ashish. "Contributions to equilibrium price dispersion theory /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Al-Wattar, Obey M. "On price inflation." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1986. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/192475/.
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This thesis seeks to analyse price inflation under oligopoly capitalism. Its central argument is that under oligopoly capitalism, price inflation is a structural phenomenon. For a greater understanding of that phenomenon, the adoption of the inter-industrial approach for its analysis seems essential. According to this approach, price inflation can be initiated in a single industry or in an industry group. The initiating factor may be an increase in the mark-up, an increase in the money wage rate or an increase in the foreign currency price of an imported input. It can also be initiated by devaluation. The input-output matrix, the core of the economic system, is the key to the transmission of inflationary impulses (in the form of higher unit cost) from one industry to another. Real wage resistance, rigid mark-up resistance, and rigid foreign resistance do no more than perpetuate or worsen the inflationary experience. The inflationary process itself has a dual role to play. It acts as a mechanism for shifting income distribution in favour of one section of the society against another and as a mechanism for changing the price structure. The author argues that the abandonment of the macroeconomic approach to the analysis of price inflation and its replacement by the inter-industrial approach is the first step for serious analysis of that structural phenomenon.
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Martínez, López-Pardina Irene. "3 essays on first-price auctions." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/4033.
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En esta tesis se analizan tres mecanismos de subasta distintos, todos ellos bajo el supuesto de valoraciones privadas e independientes.El primer mecanismo que analizamos es una subasta de múltiples unidades en la que los objetos son vendidos secuencialmente por medio de subastas de precio descendente. La característica que hace a esta subasta diferente de la "estándar", analizada por Weber (1983) es que después de la venta del primer objeto el precio no vuelve a subir, sino que los objetos que quedan son ofrecidos al resto de los compradores al mismo precio. Si los objetos no se venden a ese precio, la subasta continúa dejando que el precio siga descendiendo. Esta subasta se analiza en dos contextos: con un modelo de valoraciones continuas y con uno de valoraciones discretas. Se demuestra que si existe un equilibrio simétrico con pujas monótonas, el resultado de la subasta es ineficiente con probabilidad positiva. Aplicando el teorema de equivalencia de rentas se concluye que la subasta no maximiza los beneficios esperados del vendedor. Para poder comparar los precios medios y las varianzas analizamos un modelo de valoraciones discretas. Demostramos que los precios esperados son menores en nuestra subasta y que también lo es la varianza de los beneficios del vendedor. Damos un ejemplo de una familia de funciones de utilidad von Neumann- Morgenstern tal que la utilidad esperada del vendedor es mayor en una u otra de las subasta dependiendo de los valores del parámetro a.
El segundo mecanismo que analizamos es una subasta asimétrica de primer precio donde la valoración de uno de los postores es conocida. Demostramos que no existe ningún equilibrio en estrategias puras y caracterizamos un equilibrio en estrategias mixtas en el que el postor cuya valoración es conocida randomiza su puja, mientras que los demás postores juegan una estrategia pura (y monótona). El resultado de la subasta es ineficiente con probabilidad positiva y el beneficio esperado del postor cuya valoración es conocida es menor que en una subasta estándar. Sin embargo, no es obvio que los demás postores mejoren su situación: el hecho de que uno de los postores juegue una estrategia mixta tiene el mismo efecto en sus rivales que un precio de reserva aleatorio. Esto puede obligarles a pujar más agresivamente de lo que pujarían en una subasta normal. El efecto en los beneficios del vendedor también es ambiguo. Tomando un ejemplo con la función de distribución uniforme y comparando los beneficios esperados del vendedor y de los compradores en las dos subastas, obtenemos que, en nuestro ejemplo (con 2 y con 3 postores) los beneficios esperados del vendedor son mas altos en la subasta asimétrica que en la normal.
Para terminar, hacemos un repaso de la literatura en subastas secuenciales cuando los compradores desean más de una unidad del bien que se subasta, y analizamos una subasta secuencial de primer precio con y sin opción de compra. Para ello usamos el mismo modelo que Black y de Meza (1992) usan para analizar la subasta secuencial de segundo precio. Demostramos que cuando las preferencias son unidimensionales no existe ningún equilibrio monótono y simétrico, lo cual implica que el resultado de la subasta no puede ser eficiente. Cuando se introduce una opción de compra que permita comprar la segunda unidad al mismo precio al que se adquirió la primera, existe un equilibrio en estrategias puras para algunos valores de los parámetros del modelo. En este caso la opción siempre se ejerce, lo cual lleva a una asignación de los bienes diferente que la que resulta en la subasta secuencial de segundo precio. Cuando la valoración por la segunda unidad es aleatoria, las subastas de primer y segundo precio sin opción de compra son equivalentes. Por último, exponemos las dificultades de caracterizar un equilibrio cuando cuando se introduce la opción de compra en este modelo.
In this thesis we analyze three different auction mechanisms, all of them under the private and independent valuations assumption.
The first auction we analyze is a multi-unit auction where the objects are sold sequentially by descending-price auctions. The feature that makes this auction different from the "standard" one is that after one object has been sold, the price does not return to a high level, but the remaining objects are offered to the rest of the bidders at the same price. If the objects fail to be sold at that price, the auction is resumed letting the price descend again. We analyze this auction in two different contexts: a continuous valuation model, and a discrete valuation one. We show that if a symmetric, monotone bidding functions equilibrium exists, the outcome of the auction is inefficient with positive probability. Applying the revenue equivalence theorem we conclude that the auction cannot maximize the seller's expected revenue. In order to be able to compare the averages expected prices and variances, we analyze a discrete-valuation model. We show that the average expected prices are lower in our auction, and that so is the variance of the seller's expected revenue. We give an example of a family of von Neumann-Morgenstern utility functions under which the seller's expected utility may be higher in each of the auctions depending on the value of a parameter a.
The second mechanism we analyze is an asymmetric first-price auction where the valuation of one of the bidders is common knowledge. We show that no pure strategy equilibrium exists and we characterize a mixed strategy equilibrium in which the bidder whose valuation is common knowledge randomizes his bid while the other bidders play a (monotone) pure strategy. The outcome of the auction is inefficient with positive probability, and the expected profit of the bidder whose valuation is common knowledge is lower than in a standard auction in which her valuation is private knowledge. However, it is not obvious that the other bidders are better off: the fact that one of the bidders plays a mixed strategy has the effect of on the other bidders as a random reserve price bidder. This may force all them to bid more aggressively than they would in the standard auction. The effect on the seller's expected revenue is also ambiguous. In an example with the uniform distribution, we compare the expected profits of seller and buyers in this auction with those in a standard symmetric private valuation model. In our example, with 2 and 3 bidders, the seller's expected revenue is higher in the asymmetric auction than in a standard auction.
To finish, we survey the literature on sequential auctions with multi-unit demand, and we analyze a sequential first-price auction with and without a buyer's option. To do it we use the same model that Black and de Meza (1992) used to analyze the secuencial second-price caution. We show that when the preferences are unidimensional, no monotone symmetric pure strategy equilibrium exists, which implies that the outcome of the auction cannot be efficient. When an option to buy the second unit at the price paid for first one is introduced, there exists a pure strategy equilibrium for some values of the parameters of the model. In this case the option is always exercised, leading to a different allocation than that of the sequential second-price auction. When the valuations for the second unit is stochastic, the first-price and second-price auctions without a buyer's option are efficient and revenue equivalent. To finish, we give some insights into the difficulties of solving for an equilibrium when the buyer's option is introduced in this model.
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Choudhary, Muhammad Ali. "A contribution to the theory of the customer markets." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249236.
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Lawson, John, and not provided. "Theory of Real Estate Valuation." RMIT University. Economics, Finance & Marketing, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20090306.125134.
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It can be stated that where a valuation is used as an assessment of risk there is no research-backed theory of valuation, that is one that explains the methodology used and is validated by a hypothesis. The significance of this thesis is the recognition of the ignorance, and confusion that exists and the need of a theory to explain methodology verified by a hypothesis or hypotheses. This thesis is the result of systemic research in an attempt to define the confusion that exists, resulting from the application of inappropriate economic theories in valuation. This research also attempts to find the reason for and the source of the confusion. This research supports that which has previously been advocated that valuation principles of valuation Practice must be underpinned by a working theory embedded in positive economics. The finding of this paper is that price theory is an appropriate proxy for valuation theory where a valuation is used as an assessment of the recovery of funds. However importantly this research also recognises and examines the possible ability of other related economic theories to explain areas price behaviour where price theory cannot. The findings of this research are likely to have important implications in the valuation profession. Hopefully this will result in stimulating debate and a realisation of a need for a theory which supports a credible and validated process of valuation.
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Weldegebriel, Habtu Tadesse. "Price transmission in vertically-related markets." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2004. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14436/.
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The thesis aims to contribute to the literature on two fronts. Firstly, it aims to contribute to the literature by developing a conjectural variations model of price transmission in vertically related markets where the final product sector exercises both oligopoly power and oligopsony power. It finds that oligopoly and oligopsony power do not necessarily weaken the degree of price transmission relative to that under perfectly competitive markets although they can. The key to these outcomes is to be found in the functional forms for retail demand and farm supply. Secondly, it attempts to draw inferences about the conditions under which the prices of the farm and retail prices cointegrate by themselves based on the predictions of the existing theoretical models of vertical price transmission. It then evaluates whether these conditions are borne out empirically. To this end, it tests for the existence of a co-integrating relation between the raw input and retail prices for a sample of 11 food and energy markets in the UK using the Johansen Full-information Maximum Likelihood Procedure. It finds that a co-integrating relation is identified for only 4 out of 11 price pairs; i.e., for potato, fresh fruits, milk and oil. For all other price pairs, it is not identified unless the cointegration regression allows for sector shocks. This result seems to support our theoretical prediction that, given information provided by a price pair alone, co-integration can be observed only for products for which the cost share of the farm input is unity; i.e., for products with a constant margin. And obviously, potatoes, fresh fruits and milk are products which are sold in supermarkets as they appear in their raw form with minimum processing involved suggesting that the share of processing cost for these products is minimal.
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Ramanan, Sisir. "Essays in asset price bubbles." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7357/.
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This thesis studies the field of asset price bubbles. It is comprised of three independent chapters. Each of these chapters either directly or indirectly analyse the existence or implications of asset price bubbles. The type of bubbles assumed in each of these chapters is consistent with rational expectations. Thus, the kind of price bubbles investigated here are known as rational bubbles in the literature. The following describes the three chapters. Chapter 1: This chapter attempts to explain the recent US housing price bubble by developing a heterogeneous agent endowment economy asset pricing model with risky housing, endogenous collateral and defaults. Investment in housing is subject to an idiosyncratic risk and some mortgages are defaulted in equilibrium. We analytically derive the leverage or the endogenous loan to value ratio. This variable comes from a limited participation constraint in a one period mortgage contract with monitoring costs. Our results show that low values of housing investment risk produces a credit easing effect encouraging excess leverage and generates credit driven rational price bubbles in the housing good. Conversely, high values of housing investment risk produces a credit crunch characterized by tight borrowing constraints, low leverage and low house prices. Furthermore, the leverage ratio was found to be procyclical and the rate of defaults countercyclical consistent with empirical evidence. Chapter 2: It is widely believed that financial assets have considerable persistence and are susceptible to bubbles. However, identification of this persistence and potential bubbles is not straightforward. This chapter tests for price bubbles in the United States housing market accounting for long memory and structural breaks. The intuition is that the presence of long memory negates price bubbles while the presence of breaks could artificially induce bubble behaviour. Hence, we use procedures namely semi-parametric Whittle and parametric ARFIMA procedures that are consistent for a variety of residual biases to estimate the value of the long memory parameter, d, of the log rent-price ratio. We find that the semi-parametric estimation procedures robust to non-normality and heteroskedasticity errors found far more bubble regions than parametric ones. A structural break was identified in the mean and trend of all the series which when accounted for removed bubble behaviour in a number of regions. Importantly, the United States housing market showed evidence for rational bubbles at both the aggregate and regional levels. In the third and final chapter, we attempt to answer the following question: To what extend should individuals participate in the stock market and hold risky assets over their lifecycle? We answer this question by employing a lifecycle consumption-portfolio choice model with housing, labour income and time varying predictable returns where the agents are constrained in the level of their borrowing. We first analytically characterize and then numerically solve for the optimal asset allocation on the risky asset comparing the return predictability case with that of IID returns. We successfully resolve the puzzles and find equity holding and participation rates close to the data. We also find that return predictability substantially alter both the level of risky portfolio allocation and the rate of stock market participation. High factor (dividend-price ratio) realization and high persistence of factor process indicative of stock market bubbles raise the amount of wealth invested in risky assets and the level of stock market participation, respectively. Conversely, rare disasters were found to bring down these rates, the change being severe for investors in the later years of the life-cycle. Furthermore, investors following time varying returns (return predictability) hedged background risks significantly better than the IID ones.
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Kurmann, André. "New Keynesian price and cost dynamics : theory and evidence /." Full text, Acrobat Reader required, 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/557985994.pdf.
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Fraser, W. D. "The price determination of property investments : Theory and evidence." Thesis, City University London, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370931.
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Fitchett, Christian. "Asset price inflation- theory, history, and an alternative model." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1354820913.
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YANG, JR-MING JIMMY. "A MARKET STABILIZATION MECHANISM - CIRCUIT BREAKER: THEORY AND EVIDENCE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1054125077.
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Garner, John Clifford. "An analysis of Friedman's modern quantity theory." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30506.
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Raykov, Radoslav S. "Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory." Thesis, Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104087.
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Thesis advisor: Utku UnverThis dissertation consists of three essays in microeconomic theory: two focusing on insurance theory and one on matching theory. The first chapter is concerned with catastrophe insurance. Motivated by the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, it studies a strategic model of catastrophe insurance in which consumers know that they may not get reimbursed if too many other people file claims at the same time. The model predicts that the demand for catastrophe insurance can ``bend backwards'' to zero, resulting in multiple equilibria and especially in market failure, which is always an equilibrium. This shows that a catastrophe market can fail entirely due to demand-driven reasons, a result new to the literature. The model suggests that pricing is key for the credibility of catastrophe insurers: instead of increasing demand, price cuts may backfire and instead cause a ``race to the bottom.'' However, small amounts of extra liquidity can restore the system to stable equilibrium, highlighting the importance of a functioning reinsurance market for large risks. These results remain robust both for expected utility consumer preferences and for expected utility's most popular alternative, rank-dependent expected utility. The second chapter develops a model of quality differentiation in insurance markets, focusing on two of their specific features: the fact that costs are uncertain, and the fact that firms are averse to risk. Cornerstone models of price competition predict that firms specialize in products of different quality (differentiate their products) as a way of softening price competition. However, real-world insurance markets feature very little differentiation. This chapter offers an explanation to this phenomenon by showing that cost uncertainty fundamentally alters the nature of price competition among risk-averse firms by creating a drive against differentiation. This force becomes particularly pronounced when consumers are picky about quality, and is capable of reversing standard results, leading to minimum differentiation instead. The chapter concludes with a study of how the costs of quality affect differentiation by considering two benchmark cases: when quality is costless and when quality costs are convex (quadratic). The third chapter focuses on the theory of two-sided matching. Its main topic are inefficiencies that arise when agent preferences permit indifferences. It is well-known that two-sided matching under weak preferences can result in matchings that are stable, but not Pareto efficient, which creates bad incentives for inefficiently matched agents to stay together. In this chapter I show that in one-to-one matching with weak preferences, the fraction of inefficiently matched agents decreases with market size if agents are sufficiently diverse; in particular, the proportion of agents who can Pareto improve in a randomly chosen stable matching approaches zero when the number of agents goes to infinity. This result shows that the relative degree of the inefficiency vanishes in sufficiently large markets, but this does not provide a "cure-all'' solution in absolute terms, because inefficient individuals remain even when their fraction is vanishing. Agent diversity is represented by the diversity of each person's preferences, which are assumed randomly drawn, i.i.d. from the set of all possible weak preferences. To demonstrate its main result, the chapter relies on the combinatorial properties of random weak preferences
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Economics
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Iozzi, Alberto. "Essays on regulation : theory and practice." Thesis, University of York, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313959.
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Spahni, P. "The Common Wine Policy and price stabilization." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372934.
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Tozendemir, Suat. "Analysis of First Price Sealed Bidding (FPSB) using game theory." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1997. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA342280.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1997."December 1997." Thesis advisor(s): Katsuaki L. Terasawa, Mark W. Stone. Includes bibliographical references (p. 289). Also available online.
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Keough, Kate. "Economic restructuring ; who pays the price? : feminists and regulation theory /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ark37.pdf.
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Parkin, Vincent Nicholas. "Structural bottle necks, the wage price spiral and financial influences : a study of price formation and inflation in Brazil." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.238544.
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Ribeiro, Diana. "Models for the price of a storable commodity." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2004. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4063/.
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The current literature does not provide efficient models for commodity prices and futures valuation. This inadequacy is partly due to the fact that the two main streams of the literature - structural models and reduced form models - are largely disjoint. In particular, existing structural models are developed under rigid discrete time framework that does not take into account the mean-reverting properties of commodity prices. Furthermore, most of the literature within this class does not analyze the properties of the futures prices. Current reduced-form models allow cash-and-carry arbitrage possibilities and do not take into account the dependence between the spot price volatility and the inventory levels. This thesis investigates three new models for the price of a storable commodity and futures valuation. Specifically, we develop a structural model and two reduced-form models. In doing so, we expand the leading models within each of the two streams of the literature, by establishing a link between them. Each of these models provide an advance of their type. This study makes several contributions to the literature. We provide a new structural model in continuous time that takes into account the mean reversion of commodity prices. This model is formulated as a stochastic dynamic control problem. The formulation provided is flexible and can easily be extended to encompass alternative microeconomic specifications of the market. The results provide an optimal storage policy, the equilibrium prices and the spot price variability. We also develop a numerical method that allows the construction and analysis of the forward curves implied by this model. We provide a separate analysis considering a competitive storage and considering a monopolistic storage. The results are consistent with the theory of storage. Furthermore, the comparison between monopoly and competition confirm the economic theory. We developed a simple reduced-form model that focuses both on the mean reverting properties of commodity prices and excludes cash-and-carry arbitrage possibilities. This model is compared with a standard single-factor model in the literature. This new model adds two important features to the standard model and motivates the development of a more sophisticated reduced-form model. Accordingly, the last model developed in this thesis is a reduced-form model. It is a two-factor model that represents the spot price and the convenience yield as two correlated stochastic factors. This model excludes cash-and-carry arbitrage possibilities and takes into account the relationship between the spot price volatility and the inventory level. We find an analytical solution for the futures prices. This model is tested empirically using crude oil futures data and it Is compared with one of the leading models in the literature. Both models are calibrated using Kalman filter techniques. The empirical results suggest that both models need to be improved in order to better fit the long-term volatility structure of futures contracts.
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Ghandi, Hojjatallah. "Essays on Applied Microeconomic Theory." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27736.
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The first part of this dissertation investigates the possibility of an output cut by a firm as a result of an increase in demand in industries with constrained capacities. We are specially interested in the crude oil industry, although the paper has implications beyond that market. Two simple closely related models are developed. In both models a firm cuts the output at some point solely because of an increase in demand. We use this fact to explain the sharp decline of the crude oil prices in 1986.
There are price and quantity hysteresis in the second model. The price hysteresis has two implications. First, the price path when the demand increases might be different from the price path when the demand decreases. This in turn implies that a temporary shock in the demand for (or supply of) crude oil can cause permanent changes in the price. We claim that the temporary changes in the supply of crude oil in 1973 resulted in the price hysteresis phenomenon described in the second model in such a way that it kept the prices high even after the return of the producers to the market.
The second part investigates the relationship between the taste for public expenditure and the size and distribution of social groups in a society. Societies with ethnic heterogeneity spend less on redistribution and welfare programs and impose lower tax rates relative to homogeneous societies. We construct a theoretical model to explain these facts.
There are two social groups in the model: a minority group and a majority group. When members of one group feel empathy for each other but not for members of the other group, then taxes, and redistribution depend upon the size and distribution of those groups. At first, the equilibrium tax rate and redistribution decrease as the size of the minority group increases from zero, then eventually, the relationship between them becomes positive.Ph. D.
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Hughes, Matthew. "Price Signaling in a Two-Market Duopoly." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1458311593.
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Raith, Michael Alexander. "Product differentiation, uncertainty and price coordination in oligopoly." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1996. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1439/.
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This thesis consists of three self-contained analyses of models with price-setting firms. It explores the relationships between different sources of market imperfection that may be present simultaneously: product differentiation, imperfect information and collusive pricing. Chapter 2 analyses the circumstances under which oligopolists have an incentive to exchange private information on unknown demand or cost parameters. It presents general model which encompasses virtually all models in the current literature on information sharing as special cases. Within this unifying framework it is shown that in contrast to the apparent inconclusiveness of previous results, some simple principles determining the incentives for firms to share information can be obtained. Existing results are generalised, some previous interpretations questioned and new explanations offered. Chapter 3 addresses the question of how price setting between firms in a spatial retail market is affected if the relevant consumers commute between their home and their workplace and try to combine shopping with commuting. It is shown within a specific model that for small commuting distances, an increase in commuting leads to a decrease of equilibrium prices, since due to a reduction of effective travel costs the firms' products become better substitutes. Under quite general conditions, however, larger or dispersed commuting distances lead to the nonexistence of a price equilibrium. Chapter 4 analyses the question how product differentiation affects the scope for oligopolists to collude on prices. It suggests a precise theoretical foundation for the conventional view that heterogeneity is a factor hindering collusion, a view which has been challenged in recent theoretical work. It is argued that, in a world of uncertainty, an increase in the heterogeneity of products leads to a decrease in the correlation of the firms' demand shocks. With imperfect monitoring, this makes collusion more difficult to sustain, as discriminating between random demand shocks and deviations from the cartel strategy becomes more difficult.
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Anderson, Kyle J. "Essays on online price comparison site competition." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3380058.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Business, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 12, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4791. Adviser: Michael R. Baye.
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Plante, Michael. "Three essays on monetary policy responses to oil price shocks." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3380121.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Economics, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 14, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4803. Advisers: Edward F. Buffie; Eric M. Leeper.
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Schade, Don F. "Fixed-price-award-fee an economic motivational, and contracting theory analysis /." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA241829.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 1990.Thesis Advisor(s): Gates, William R. ; Terasawa, Katsuaki L. "December 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 2, 2010. DTIC Identifier(s): Award fee, economic incentives, cost reimbursement contracts, fixed price contracts, fixed price award fee. Author(s) subject Fixed Price Award Fee, FPAF, award fee, pricing arrangement, incentive contract, contractor motivation, economics, contracting, acquisition. Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-67). Also available in print.
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Grindley, Peter Conrad. "A strategic analysis of the diffusion of innovations : theory and evidence." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.308388.
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Foster, Andrew J. "Information, volatility and price discovery in oil futures markets." Thesis, Brunel University, 1994. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5871.
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This thesis presents four related empirical essays which investigate the role of information in crude oil futures markets. The first line of investigation examines the impact of futures trading on spot price volatility and finds that the nature of spot price volatility is affected by derivative trading and the improvements in information discovery which such trading brings. Second, the efficiency of futures markets is examined with respect to their ability to provide unbiased estimates of future spot prices. Here it is concluded that while unbiased estimates are generally provided in the long-term, they tend to be largely biased over the short-term. The third area of investigation looks at the relative ability of contemporaneous spot and futures prices to discover information, where it is found that futures generally exhibit price discovery over spot markets but that the relationship can vary considerably over time and in relation to market conditions. In addition, the investigation suggests that previous studies into such relationships have failed to account for all routes through which information passes between spot and futures markets. Finally the thesis probes the question of the relationship within futures markets between volume, volatility and information. The finding is' that futures markets' prices and trading volume exhibit a positive relation and are jointly driven by the rate of information arrival. The results further suggest that the widely held expectation that volume statistics can improve forecasts of future price change does not hold in the case of oil futures. The overall finding of the thesis is that oil futures markets are well-functioning and in general are of benefit to the underlying spot market.
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Bennett, G. F. "The determinants of relative price change : An empirical investigation." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.374550.
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The objective of the research programme that forms the basis of this thesis was to investigate the factors which influence relative price change both in terms of levels of price change within industries and, from the perspective of the individual business, the size and direction of relative price change. In addition, as a preliminary step in the development of a further research area, the impact of changes in relative price on the major measures of business performance i.e. return on investment change and market share change are investigated. A model of relative price change is advanced involving market structure factors, product factors, cost factors and non-price marketing decision variables. Hypotheses in the industry context consider the magnitude of relative price change and use absolute measures of relative price change as dependent variables. In the individual business context hypotheses consider both magnitude and direction of relative price change. Hypotheses are tested on the Profit Impact of Marketing Strategies data base of the Strategic Planning Institute. The methodology employed is multiple regression analysis and cross-tabulation. A range of statistical tests is put forward to assess model validity, the strength of hypothesised relationships and the relative importance of explanatory variables. The results show initial relative price dispersion, changes in relative direct costs, changes in relative product quality and entry VI of new competitors to be most important in explaining the variation of the magnitude of relative price changes within industries. For the individual business relative price change, including both magnitude and direction of change, emerges as a function of initial relative price, relative direct cost change and initial relative cost position together with cross-product terms in relative price and relative cost. The level of relative advertising expenditure and relative product quality change also emerge as substantial explanatory variables. Significant patterns in the linkage of relative price change to changes in business performance measures emerge and there is evidence of a significant relationship between business performance and relative price change deviation from the expected level.
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Rougier, Jonathan. "Price change and trading volume in a speculative market." Thesis, Durham University, 1996. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5347/.
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This thesis is concerned with the daily dynamics of price change and trading volume in a speculative market. The first part examines the news-driven model of Tauchen and Pitts (1983), and develops this model to the point where it is directly testable. In order to implement the test a new method for creating a price index from futures contracts is proposed. It is found that news effects can explain some but not all of the structure of the daily price/volume relationship. An alternative explanation is presented, in which the model of Tauchen and Pitts is generalized in a non-linear fashion. In the second part of the thesis, the presence of a small amount of positive autocorrelation in daily returns is exploited through the development of a timing rule. This timing rule applies to investors who are committed to a purchase but flexible about the precise timing. The computation of the timing rule is discussed in detail. In practice it is found that this timing rule is unlikely to generate sufficiently large returns to be of interest to investors in a typical stock market, supporting the hypothesis of market efficiency. However, the incorporation of extra information regarding price/volume dynamics, as suggested by the analysis of Part I, might lead to a much improved rule.
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Wong, Mei Wa. "Price and volatility behaviour of four Asian stock markets." Thesis, Durham University, 1999. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4306/.
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The past ten years have witnessed many changes in the Asian economies and stock markets, particularly in the Four Tigers, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. They enjoyed economic growth well above the world average during the late 1980s and early 1990s. There were sharp increases in their stock market capitalisations against the background of low growth and low interest rates in the US and European countries in the early 1990s. This coincided with the time when measures to liberalise these markets were implemented to allow or attract foreign direct investments in their stock markets. Then by mid 1997, both their economies and stock markets began to slump. This ten year time period thus provides a good opportunity to examine how such economic and institutional changes affected the price and volatility behaviour of the Four Tigers and their relationships with other markets. Overall, the findings of the thesis suggest that with the increase in foreign participation in the four individual markets, the influence of noise trading activities has been reduced through more and better informed trading. However, their relationships with three world major markets, the US, the UK and Japan, are not getting much stronger. There is no evidence to suggest that their prices are being increasingly led by the world markets, nor is their volatility becoming more sensitive to foreign news. Their price and volatility relationships with three regional markets, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, were not particularly strong either, until recently, when the Asian financial crisis has made them more responsive to shocks from one another. The message to the governments of the Four Tigers is clear. Foreign direct equity investments have not destabilised their stock markets. Instead, the mismanagement of their own and/or their trading partners' economies should be held more responsible.
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Lorusso, Marco. "The effects of oil price shocks on the UK economy." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6961/.
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This thesis examines the impact of oil price movements on the UK economy. To this end, it is composed of three chapters which use different approaches in order to assess the causes and the consequences of oil price shocks on the main UK macroeconomic fundamentals. In Chapter 1, we analyse the impact of oil price fluctuations on the UK economy using a two-stage method. This empirical strategy allows us to decompose oil price changes depending on the underlying source of the shock. In line with previous studies, our results show that, since the mid-1970s, oil price movements have been mainly associated with shocks to oil demand rather than oil supply. We contribute to previous literature by finding that the consequences of oil price changes on UK macroeconomic aggregates depend on the different types of oil shocks. Thus, for instance, increases of global real economic activity do not depress the domestic economy in the short run. Conversely, shortfalls in crude oil supply cause an immediate fall of UK GDP growth. As a consequence, the Bank of England sets the nominal interest rate depending on the nature of the shock hitting the oil market. Our results also show that domestic inflation increases following a rise in the real oil price. Finally, we find that in response to oil price increases, although UK macroeconomic fundamentals worsen, the government deficit reduces. In Chapter 2, we develop and estimate, using Bayesian methods, an open economy two-bloc DSGE model in order to analyse the responses of the UK economy and the rest of the world to different sources of oil price shocks. We consider the period in which the UK was a net oil exporter that also corresponds to the Non-Inflationary, Consistently Expansionary (NICE) decade (1990-2005). In line with previous literature, our findings confirm that global oil shocks are mainly responsible for UK oil price changes. Our impulse response analysis shows that a drop in the oil price stimulates UK GDP and reduces domestic inflation inducing the BoE to lower the nominal interest rate. In contrast to previous studies, we find that the UK exchange rate responds differently according to the source of oil price shocks. In particular, a positive shock to foreign oil intensity induces an appreciation of the Pound. Conversely, a positive shock to foreign oil supply causes a depreciation of the British Sterling. Generally, a fall in the oil price worsens the UK trade balance, since UK is a net oil exporter. Finally, our historical decomposition analysis contributes to previous literature by showing that episodes of sharp increases in the oil price are associated with falls in the UK output and rises in the domestic inflation. In Chapter 3, we study the main transmission channels of oil price fluctuations for the UK economy and the consequences of oil price changes on its public finances. Our model is estimated with Bayesian techniques over the same sample period as in Chapter 2. In line with previous literature, our results show that foreign oil demand and supply shocks are the main factors explaining the UK oil price volatility. In contrast to existing studies we find that the variation of UK government debt is broadly explained by oil price fluctuations related to changes in the foreign oil intensity. We extend the previous literature by estimating the parameters of several fiscal policy rules. In particular, we find that the response of petroleum revenue tax to oil price changes is stronger than the response of fuel duty tax to domestic oil demand. In line with Chapter 2, our impulse response analysis indicates that a decrease in the oil price positively affects the UK economy inducing an increase in its GDP and a fall in the domestic inflation. However, the drop in the oil price generates a negative effect on the UK trade balance. In contrast to Chapter 2, we find that a positive foreign oil intensity shock causes depreciation in the Pound. The latter effect occurs as the decrease in the UK VAT causes a reduction in the price of domestic consumption goods. Finally, we are able to quantify the size of the responses of UK public finances to oil price shocks. Our results indicate that a fall in the oil price induces a reduction in UK total tax receipts and, in turn, causes the rise in the government debt. Thus, for example, we find that a positive shock to foreign oil intensity increases UK government debt by £ 700 millions during the first year and £ 1100 millions in four years.
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Yang, Qian. "Stock bubbles : The theory and estimation." Thesis, Brunel University, 2006. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/3597.
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This work attempts to make a breakthrough in the empirical research of market inefficiency by introducing a new approach, the value frontier method, to estimate the magnitude of stock bubbles, which has been an interesting topic that has attracted a lot of research attention in the past. The theoretical framework stems from the basic argument of Blanchard & Watson’s (1982) rational expectation of asset value that should be equal to the fundamental value of the stock, and the argument of Scheinkman & Xiong (2003) and Hong, Scheinkman & Xiong (2006) that bubbles are formed by heterogeneous beliefs which can be refined as the optimism effect and the resale option effect. The applications of the value frontier methodology are demonstrated in this work at the market level and the firm level respectively. The estimated bubbles at the market level enable us to analyse bubble changes over time among 37 countries across the world, which helps further examine the relationship between economic factors (e.g. inflation) and bubbles. Firm-level bubbles are estimated in two developed markets, the US and the UK, as well as one emerging market, China. We found that the market-average bubble is less volatile than industry-level bubbles. This finding provides a compelling explanation to the failure of many existing studies in testing the existence of bubbles at the whole market level. In addition, the significant decreasing trend of Chinese bubbles and their co-moving tendency with the UK and the US markets offer us evidence in support of our argument that even in an immature market, investors can improve their investment perceptions towards rationality by learning not only from previous experience but also from other opened markets. Furthermore, following the arguments of “sustainable bubbles” from Binswanger (1999) and Scheinkman & Xiong (2003), we reinforce their claims at the end that a market with bubbles can also be labelled efficient; in particular, it has three forms of efficiency. First, a market without bubbles is completely efficient from the perspective of investors’ responsiveness to given information; secondly, a market with “sustainable bubbles” (bubbles that co-move with the economy), which results from rational responses to economic conditions, is in the strong form of information-responsive efficiency; thirdly, a market with “non-sustainable bubbles”, i.e. the bubble changes are not linked closely with economic foundations, is in the weak form of information-responsive efficiency.
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Cardoso, Larissa Barbosa. "Essays on economics of obesity and food prices : theory and evidences for Brazil." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/132933.
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O objetivo desta tese é analisar a influência do preço dos alimentos sobre o crescimento da obesidade no Brasil e avaliar os efeitos de uma política baseada no preço como instrumento de prevenção da obesidade. Essas questões foram analisadas em três ensaios que utilizam da estrutura econômica, baseada no princípio de racionalidade econômica, para compreender as escolhas individuais quanto à ingestão e gasto calóricos e a dinâmica do ganho de peso dos brasileiros. O ensaio 1 identifica as principais mudanças no índice de massa corporal (IMC) dos brasileiros e estima a contribuição dos preços dos alimentos a partir dos métodos de distribuição relativa e de decomposição contrafactual. Verificou-se que, concomitante ao aumento da obesidade, um deslocamento para a direita da distribuição do IMC revelando: a) uma maior densidade de indivíduos nas regiões de sobrepeso e obesidade; e b) um aumento do IMC mediano uma maior dispersão em torno deste. Os resultados indicaram que o aumento de preço observado entre 2002 e 2009 foi importante para conter o avanço da obesidade. Contudo, o efeito dessa variação (efeito nível) foi inferior àquele verificado para a mudança do impacto dos alimentos sobre o IMC (efeito estrutura). Os preços de alimentos como refrigerantes, carne e leite integral mostraram-se bastante significativos. Por outro lado, a renda e os anos de estudo contribuíram positivamente para o aumento do IMC no período analisado. Considerando os efeitos obtidos para o preço de refrigerantes sobre o IMC, bem como sua associação positiva do consumo desta bebida com obesidade, os ensaios 2 e 3 avaliaram os efeitos individuais e agregados, respectivamente, da adoção uma política de saúde baseada no aumento de impostos sobre bebidas açucaradas. No ensaio 2, adotou-se o modelo de duas partes para estimar as elasticidades preço demanda, as quais indicaram que o aumento do preço de bebidas açucaradas (refrigerantes e sucos) reduz o consumo, especialmente dos grupos que mais consomem destas bebidas. O resultado sobre o peso apresentou magnitude modesta, porém esta medida mostrou-se relevante na prevenção da obesidade, dado que maiores perdas de peso foram observadas na faixa próxima ao IMC correspondente à obesidade. Os efeitos em termos agregados foram simulados a partir do modelo de preços derivado da matriz de insumo produto, e os resultados mostram que uma política tributária sobre refrigerantes tende a gerar poucos efeitos adversos para a economia, com redução da produção do referido setor e daqueles diretamente inter-relacionados sendo compensada pelo aumento na produção de outros setores. O mesmo foi observado para o emprego, que apresentou variação positiva. No que se refere ao consumo, dado que em termos individuais o aumento tributário de 10% contribui para reduzir o consumo em 6,1%, a despesa de consumo agregado das famílias sofreria redução de 2,1%, com maior redução verificada na faixa de renda intermediária. Diante disso, conclui-se que a redução no preço dos alimentos mais calóricos observada nos últimos anos teve impacto sobre o peso dos brasileiros, e portanto, poderia ser levada em consideração na estruturação de políticas públicas para o combate à obesidade.The objective of this thesis is to analyze the influence of the price of food on the growth of obesity in Brazil and to assess the effects of a policy based on price as a prevention instrument against obesity. These issues were analyzed in three essays that make use of the economic structure, based on the principle of economic rationality, in order to understand individual choices about calorie intake and expenditure and the dynamics of weight gain of Brazilians. Essay 1 identifies the main changes in Body Mass Index (BMI) of Brazilians and estimates the contribution of food prices from the relative distribution method and of counterfactual decomposition. It was verified that, concomitant to the increase in obesity, there is a shift towards the right of the BMI distribution revealing: a) a greater density of individuals in the regions of overweight and obesity; and b) an increase of the medium BMI a major dispersion around this. The results indicated that the price increases observed between 2002 and 2009 were important to contain the advance of obesity. However, the effect of that variation (level effect) was lower than that observed for the change of the impact of food on BMI (structure effect). The prices of foods such as soft drinks, meat and whole milk showed to be quite significant. On the other hand, income and years of study contributed positively for the increase of the BMI in the analyzed period. Considering the effect obtained for the price of soft drinks on BMI, as well as the positive association of consumption of this type of beverage with obesity, essays 2 and 3 evaluated the individual and aggregate effects, respectively, of the adoption of a health policy based on the increase of taxes on sugary drinks. In essay 2, the two part model was adopted in order to estimate the price-demand elasticity, which indicated that the price increase of sugary drinks (soft drinks and juices) reduce the consumption, especially of the groups that most consume these beverages. The result on weight presented a modest magnitude; however this measure showed to be relevant in the prevention of obesity, since the greater weight losses were observed in the group nearest to the BMI corresponding to obesity. The effects in aggregate terms were simulated parting from the price model derived from the product input matrix, and the results show that a tax policy on soft drinks tends to generate few adverse effects for the economy, with a production reduction of that sector and those directly interrelated being offset by increased production in other sectors. The same was observed for employment, which presented a positive variation. Regarding consumption, since in individual terms the 10% tributary increase contributed to reduce consumption in 6,1%, the aggregate consumption expenditure of households would suffer a reduction of 2.1%, with greater reductions observed in the middle-income range. Therefore, it is concluded that the reduction in the price of high-calorie foods observed in recent years has had an impact on the weight of Brazilians, and therefore, could be taken into account in the structuring of public policies for the fight against obesity.
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Lozano, Moncada Carlos Arturo. "Game theory application to the analysis of wheeling charges allocation and bidding strategies." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269898.
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Price, Jason. "Popescu's Conjecture in Multiquadratic Extensions." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2009. http://library.uvm.edu/dspace/bitstream/123456789/213/1/Price%20Dissertation.pdf.
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Ellul, Andrew. "Trading behaviour, price discovery and volatility in competing market microstructures." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2001. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2102/.
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The first chapter investigates the price and volatility impacts produced by block trades in an inter-market environment with different microstructures. A sample of European cross-traded securities is employed to investigate whether large trades executed on the foreign market (London Stock Exchange's SEAQ-I market) produce any impacts on the securities' home markets and analyse whether different market microstructures matter. The price impact in the home markets is detected before the large trade is executed on SEAQ-I and proceeds in a protracted fashion, implying that substantial pre- and post-positioning is undertaken by London market makers through the home markets. The new equilibrium price on the home market is reached before the trade information is published on SEAQ-I. Large trades are also found to cause higher price volatility in auction trading systems than in a hybrid market microstructure. The second and third chapters analyse the formation of quoted and effective spreads and their components in three different market microstructures. The results show that quoted and effective spreads generated by a hybrid system (Deutsche Borse's IBIS system) are lower than those generated by both the pure auction system (Paris Bourse's CAC system) and the dealership system (London Stock Exchange SEAQ market). Traders on a hybrid mechanism face the lowest costs and this result holds even when we control for (a) the level of market concentration in liquidity provision, and (b) company-specific news. However, the adverse selection component of the spread is significantly higher in an auction trading system compared to both the dealership and the hybrid trading system. This fifth chapter investigates (a) whether, in a hybrid trading mechanism, voluntary market makers provide a higher level of price stabilisation than limit order traders even if they do not have any obligation to keep orderly markets, (b) the strategic interactions between the limit order book and market makers, and (c) the behaviour of the order flow at times of price uncertainty. We analyse these issues using high frequency data from the London Stock Exchange which has adopted a hybrid market microstructure. We find that prices on the dealership system track the security's true value more efficiently. The dealership system can transact higher volumes with lower price volatility. This evidence suggests that market makers provide price stabilisation, even if they have no binding obligation to do so, thus improving the market's quality. In terms of trading behaviour, we find that in a hybrid trading mechanism, traders are not encouraged to provide liquidity on the order book through limit orders as price uncertainty increases. Instead orders migrate to the dealership system for execution.
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Fortune, Christopher Joseph. "Factors affecting the selection of building project price forecasting tools." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/1271.
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This thesis contributes to what is known about the investigation and formulation phases of the building project price forecasting advice process. The research has developed a greater understanding of what general factors affect the selection of non-traditional types of building project price forecasting models. The thesis adopted a two-phased combined research approach. The first phase required a population mailed survey to be executed with over two thousand three hundred quantity surveying organisations located across England in 1997. The second phase required thirty-one in-depth interviews to be executed, with informed practitioners, in five rounds of data collection. Consequently, this research firstly, established the types of building project price forecasting models or tools in-use in England. The study found that the called for paradigm shift away from the traditional types of models, had not yet been generally achieved. The study provided evidence that some types of quantity surveying organisations were moving towards the adoption of the non-traditional models, for use as additional tools. The study then, secondly, identified a number of general factors that were found to affect the selection of non-traditional types of building project price forecasting models. The thesis concluded by generating a grounded constraints-based theory of factors found to affect the selection of non-traditional types of building project price forecasting models. The emergent theory identified the parameters needed to enable all types of quantity surveying organisations to become involved with the selection of non-traditional models or tools.
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Bazzazan, Fatemeh. "A dynamic input-output price model with application to Iran." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250332.
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SONNERVIG, MARCOS KIEHL. "THE FISCAL THEORY OF THE PRICE LEVEL WITH NOMINAL REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=31795@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
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A hipótese usual de que a política fiscal é definida em termos reais não é nem realista, nem inócua. Neste artigo, propomos um modelo que leva em consideração a existência de receitas e despesas nominais. Essa característica cria um canal inexplorado pelo qual as políticas monetária e fiscal interagem. Nós mostramos que, neste ambiente, o nível de preços pode ser fiscalmente determinado, mesmo quando toda a dívida do governo é real. Além disso, os efeitos das políticas monetária e fiscal são sensíveis ao grau de indexação no orçamento do governo. Usando técnicas de estimação Bayesiana, nós estimamos o modelo para a economia norte-americana e encontramos que a corrosão do valor real das despesas desempenha um papel importante no financiamento dos déficits do governo, sob o regime de dominância fiscal.
The usual assumption that fiscal policy is set in real terms is neither realistic nor innocuous. In this article, we propose a model that accounts for the existence of nominal revenues and expenditures. This creates an unexplored channel through which monetary and fiscal policies interact. We show that, in this environment, the price level can be fiscally determinate, even when all government debt is real. Also, the effects of monetary and fiscal policies are sensitive to the degree of indexation in the government budget. Using Bayesian techniques, we estimate the model for the US economy and find that the revaluation of these nominal components plays an important role as a source of fiscal financing, under a fiscally dominant regime.
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Strader, J. M. "The impact of neoclassical price theory on monopolization law : a transatlantic perspective." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1468568/.
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This thesis explores the content and implications of Neoclassical Price Theory (NPT) for monopolization enforcement, as applied to predatory pricing, tying, and bundled discounts in both the United States and the European Union. When considering the foundations to monopolization enforcement, many authors have found distinct schools of antitrust thought, each featuring distinguishable legal and economic principles.1 Such principles support varying degrees of monopolization enforcement, with a ratchet effect upwards from Chicago, to Harvard, to Post-Chicago. I attempt to demonstrate a superseding claim, namely that the economic and legal principles embodied in NPT have influenced, above all other considerations, the development of predation, tying, and bundling law in both jurisdictions. Courts have constructed and altered that law from the following core concepts of NPT: rationality, competition, efficiency, and the rule of law. I further set-out to prove that NPT by itself does not support low levels of monopolization enforcement, or any particular level. Rather, it identifies the most relevant economic factors that determine price levels, efficiency, and consumer welfare more generally. This thesis is timely because it assesses both the theoretical and practical validity of NPT at a juncture in history when the EU Commission has issued a Guidance Paper on monopolization enforcement drawn principally from its precepts,2 and when the judiciary in both jurisdictions is considering expanding, or has expanded, cost tests to other price-based abuses.
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Frömmel, Tomáš. "A Contribution to the Austrian Business Cycle Theory: Uncertainty and Price Expectations." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-205312.
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Common critique of the Austrian business cycle theory states that the Austrian cycle could not be initiated under the rational expectations hypothesis. This thesis therefore investigates the role of price expectations of entrepreneurs in the Austrian cycle theory. We conclude that this theory might be compatible with rational expectations only under several assumptions. The rational expectations hypothesis is, however, evaluated rather critically concluding it is quite strong and unrealistic assumption. Various regimes of monetary policy are discusses in the context of price expectations.
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Nomikos, Nikos K. "Risk management, price discovery and forecasting in the freight futures market." Thesis, City University London, 1999. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/7749/.
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The success or failure of a futures contract is determined by its ability to provide benefits to economic agents, over and above the benefits they derive from the spot market. These benefits are price discovery and risk management through hedging. The extent to which different commodity and financial futures markets have served as efficient centres of price discovery and risk management has been the focus of considerable empirical research in the literature. The evidence however, on the BIFFEX market is very limited. This thesis therefore, by investigating these issues provides new evidence in the literature for a futures market with some unique characteristics such as the trading of a service and thin trading. Our empirical results are summarised as follows. First, the BIFFEX market performs its price discovery function efficiently since futures prices in the market contribute to the discovery ofnew information regarding both current and expected BFI prices. Second, futures prices fail to reduce market risk to the extent evidenced in other markets in the literature and, hence, the market does not perform its risk management function satisfactorily; this is thought to be the result of the heterogeneous composition of the underlying index. Sub-period analysis, corresponding to revisions in the composition of the underlying asset, indicates that the effectiveness of the BIFFEX contract as a centre for risk management and price discovery has strengthened over the recent years as a result of the more homogeneous composition of the index. This by itself indicates that the forthcoming elimination from the underlying index of the cargo routes for larger vessels, which will take place in November 1999, may have a beneficial impact on the market.
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Romp, Graham. "Rational dynamic disequilibrium macro models with wage, price and inventory adjustment." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1988. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/109855/.
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This thesis presents original and significant research on the foundations of dynamic disequilibrium macroeconomics and on the implications of such a modelling strategy. It represents a continuation of current research to provide an acceptable alternative to New Classical macroeconomics. Disequilibrium economics, contrary to New Classical economics, does not assume markets continually clear, and is concerned, in principle, with the dynamic response of an economy to disequilibrium by way of both price and quantity adjustments. It is only recently, however, that the early static disequilibrium models have been extended to include dynamics via price adjustment and other intertemporal linkages. This thesis furthers this line of research. Initial chapters concentrate on developing a rational basis for quantity constrained models, while subsequent chapters develop and analyse specific open and closed economy dynamic disequilibrium models. Chapters 2-4 critically assess New Classical economics; show that imperfect price adjustment can be derived from rational economic behaviour, given the presence of imperfect information and learning, incomprehensively indexed contracts, and small-menu costs; and discuss various disequilibrium modelling strategies. Chapters 5-6 employ the chosen modelling strategy (based on Sneessens, 1981) to develop dynamic disequilibrium models. Intertemporal linkages are established via wage, price and inventory adjustment. These models are used to test ‘the robustness of previously derived results and provide new results. Significant insights are gained into the possibility of long-run non-Walrasian equilibria, the existence of limit cycles, the importance of wage and price adjustment, and the behaviour of exchange rates within regime switching models. Further these models aid our understanding of trade and inventory cycles. Finally we analyse the effectiveness of government policy in the various disequilibrium models. Not all the New Classical policy conclusions remain valid when imperfect price adjustment is modelled consistently.
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Jin, Binping. "Dynamics of price cycles in agent-based models of financial markets /." View abstract or full-text, 2009. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?PHYS%202009%20JIN.
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Kaluwa, Ben Meshack. "Barriers to entry, price controls, and monopoly power in Malawian manufacturing." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19886.
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Turner, Peter Robert. "Price formation within the UK electricity industry and the application of auction theory." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272584.
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Duhamel, Marc. "Essays on second-best economic policymaking with price makers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0017/NQ56535.pdf.
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Kim, Byungkuk. "Revisiting the relationship between price stickiness and the non-neutrality of money." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/86758/.
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By lots of economists and central banks, price stickiness is believed to be the main factor which brings about the non-neutrality of money. Based on the belief, most of the New Keynesian models are developed to feature price stickiness in order to make the real effect of money. Among those, the Calvo pricing has been the most popular framework in featuring the sticky price. This thesis investigates whether the non-neutrality of money is always guaranteed by the Calvo-type price stickiness or not. In particular, the focus lies on the effect of volatility of firms’' optimal prices on the relationship between price stickiness and the non-neutrality of money. Chapter 1 presents the theoretical possibility of the non-relationship between the two phenomenons in such case that repricing firms’' optimal prices are very volatile, and the following two chapters propose more micro-founded endogenous frameworks to deliver the results which support the argument in Chapter 1. It is shown in Chapter 1 that high volatility of reset prices has the same effect as that of lowering the degree of price stickiness and increasing the future discount factor in the standard Calvo framework. Due to the effect, it can be illustrated that the aggregate price level can be flexible even when some firms’ maintain the previous price level if the other repricing firms' prices respond very elastically to monetary shocks. Chapter 2 proposes a model in which repricing firms’ behave as in collusion and exploit the information on aggregate price dynamics by taking the aggregate price as a function of their own price at the process of optimization. It is shown that the colluding firms set much higher prices for monopoly gains against positive monetary shocks, and therefore, the aggregate price level can be very responsive even with price stickiness of the rms. Lastly, Chapter 3 presents the case where firms have no information on other firms' pricing behaviours and have expectations on average reset price with bounded rationality. The model of this chapter demonstrates that the realized level of average reset price of the firms can be much higher than that of the standard model when their expectations are heterogeneous. All the results of the chapters imply that the monetary policy might not be able to have the real effect even with price stickiness if firms’ reset prices show very volatile movements. Therefore, economists and central banks should research more on the volatility of firms' reset prices when analysing monetary policy and also try to find other factors which might have direct relationship with the rigidity of aggregate price, rather than price stickiness which focuses just on individual prices, when developing a monetary model.
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Joslyn-Battaglia, Kari. "The Relationship Between an Industry Average Beta Coefficient and Price Elasticity of Demand." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500999/.
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The price elasticity of demand coefficient for a good or service is a measure of the sensitivity, or responsiveness, of the quantity demanded of a product to changes in the price of that product. The price elasticity of demand coefficients were generated for goods and services in nine different industries for the years 1972 to 1984. A simple linear demand function was employed, using the changes in the Consumer Price Index as a proxy for changes in price and Personal Consumption Expenditures, taken from the National Income and Product Accounts, as a proxy for quantity. Beta measures the sensitivity, or responsiveness, of a stock to the market. An industry average beta coefficient was generated for each of the nine industries over the time period, using the beta coefficients published by Value Line for firms which met certain criteria. In order to test the relationship between the price elasticity of demand and an industry average beta coefficient, a simple regression was performed using the beta coefficient as the dependent variable and the price elasticity of demand coefficient as the independent variable. The results broke down into 3 basic categories: those industries for which there seemed to be no relationship, those industries where there was a fairly strong probability that a relationship exists and the price elasticity of demand explains at least part of the variation in beta coefficients, and those industries where there was a very high probability that a relationship does exist and the variation in the price elasticity of demand coefficients substantially explained the variation in the industry average beta coefficients. The first category includes the food at home, tobacco, and shoe industries. The second category includes the men's clothing, the women's clothing, and the alcoholic beverages industries, and the third includes the automobile, airline, and fast-food restaurant industries.