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Inflation Dynamics and the Cost Channel: The Small Open Economy Case
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-05-19)
This paper investigates the cost channel of monetary policy, transmitting its effect on economic activities other than conventional demand side, in a small open economy. The innovations lie in examination of the cost ...
Federal Liabilities: They're Bigger than You May Think
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-09-01)
The Carrot and the Stick of Medicaid Expansion
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-05-01)
The Increase Convex Order and the Tradeoff of Size for Risk
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-02-01)
One random variable is larger than another in the increasing convex order if that random variable is preferred or indifferent to the other by all decision makers with increasing and convex utility functions. Decision makers ...
Market Concentration, Price Dispersion and Inefficient Cross-hauling in the Laboratory
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-04-01)
This paper presents experimental evidence suggesting that persistent price dispersion that violates the law of one price may be a disequilibrium phenomena. Increasing market concentration increases the pecuniary incentive ...
Are We Taming Health Care Spending
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-01-01)
Testing Risk Dominance and Payoff Dominance in Repeated Global Stag Hunt Games
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-04-01)
In any 22 global game, Carlsson and van Damme (1993b) showed that the game has a unique dominance solvable equilibrium that corresponds to the risk dominant equilibrium of the related common knowledge game with multiple ...
A Model to Evaluate Vehicle Emission Incentive Policies in Japan
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-06-01)
Using three years of data from the 47 prefectures of Japan, the authors estimate behavior of households who simultaneously make discrete decisions about vehicle ownership and continuous decisions about driving distance. ...
The Federal Reserve and Interest Rates
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-11-01)
Does Playing Against an Error Prone Opponent Influence Learning in Nim?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-04-01)
When learning to play a game well, does it help to play against an opponent who makes the same sort of mistakes one tends to make or is it better to play against a procedurally rational algorithm, which never makes mistakes? ...