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Price rigidity and price dispersion: Evidence from micro data

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E Baharad… - Review of economic dynamics, 2004 - Elsevier
We use large unpublished data set about the prices by store of 381 products collected by the
Israeli Bureau of Statistics during 1991–1992 in the process of computing the CPI. On
average 24% of the stores changed their price where the average is over products and ...
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Marginal cost pricing when spot markets are complete

B Eden - Journal of Political Economy, 1990 - JSTOR
The standard formulation of a spot market subject to uncertain excess demand uses a
tatonnement process that restricts trade until the market-clearing price is found. Here I
present a model in which there is no restriction on trade during the process of the ...
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[BOOK] Rigid prices: evidence from US scanner data

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JR Campbell, B Eden… - 2005 - nber.org
Abstract This paper uses over two years of weekly scanner data from two small US cities to
characterize time and state dependence of grocers' pricing decisions. In these data, the
probability of a nominal adjustment declines with the time since the last price change even ...
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The adjustment of prices to monetary shocks when trade is uncertain and sequential

B Eden - Journal of Political Economy, 1994 - JSTOR
Trade is both uncertain and sequential. Money surprises are not neutral because prices at
the beginning of the trading process cannot depend on its end. In contrast with fixed-price
models, in this paper sellers can change prices during trade. In contrast with Lucas's ...
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Inflation and price adjustment: an analysis of microdata

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B Eden - Review of Economic Dynamics, 2001 - Elsevier
I use large datasets on prices by products and stores from recent inflationary periods in
Israel to compare simple menu cost models with simple uncertain and sequential trade
(UST) models. The main empirical findings are (a) price erosion due to inflation explains ...
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Inventories in a Competitive Environment

B Bental… - Journal of Political Economy, 1993 - JSTOR
Trade is sequential: Buyers arrive in batches, and each batch completes trade before the
next arrives. Producers allocate the available supply among all potential batches of buyers.
Inventories accumulate whenever a batch does not arrive. Shocks to cost and demand are ...
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On the specification of the demand for money: The real rate of return versus the rate of inflation

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B Eden - The Journal of Political Economy, 1976 - JSTOR
The demand for money is sometimes specified as a function of the anticipated rate of
inflation and sometimes as a function of the anticipated real rate of return on money.'In the
absence of uncertainty, individuals hold point anticipations and it does not matter which ...
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Productivity, market power, and capacity utilization when spot markets are complete

B Eden… - The American Economic Review, 1993 - JSTOR
Recently Robert Hall (1988, 1990) found that the short-run elasticity of output with respect to
labor is too high relative to the prediction of the standard competitive spot-market. model.
Thomas Abbott, Griliches, and Jerry Hausman (1988; henceforth AGH) examined the ...
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The role of insurance and gambling in allocating risk over time

B Eden - Journal of Economic Theory, 1977 - Elsevier
Abstract Some simple, well-known arguments concerning the value of information are
applied to show that diminishing marginal utility will lead to insurance, but insurance-type
phenomena do not require diminishing marginal utility. In particular, when there are no ...
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Asymmetric information and the excess volatility of stock prices

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B Eden… - Economic Inquiry, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
Evidence suggests the volatility of stock prices cannot be accounted for by information about
future dividends. We argue that some of the volatility of stock prices in excess of
fundamentals results from fluctuations in the amount of public information over time. Our ...
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On Measuring the Variance-Age Profile of Lifetime Earnings

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B Eden, A Pakes - The Review of Economic Studies, 1981 - JSTOR
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a measure of the uncertainty in different earnings
paths. The measure we propose has two desirable properties. First, given appropriate data,
it is relatively easy to estimate. Second, under the assumptions of the life-cycle permanent ...
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Stochastic dominance in human capital

B Eden - The Journal of Political Economy, 1980 - JSTOR
The paper considers the choice between two finite income paths that are subject to random
variations. It is shown that if one income path, X, has more cumulative variation at the outset
and less variation toward the end than another income path, Y, then X dominates Y in the ...
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[CITATION] A course in monetary economics: sequential trade, money, and uncertainty

B Eden - 2005 - Wiley-Blackwell
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[CITATION] An expected utility function for the insurance buying gambler

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B Eden - The Review of Economic Studies, 1979 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Friedman and Savage (1948) provided a utility function of income which is capable of
rationalizing the behaviour of an individual who combines insurance against a small risk
with a large gamble. However, they concluded that the" willingness of individuals,..., who ...
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Toward a Theory of Competitive Price Adjustment

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B Eden - The Review of Economic Studies, 1981 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
In his 1959 essay" Toward a Theory of Price Adjustment" Arrow argued that" there exists a
logical gap in the usual formulations of the theory of perfectly competitive economy, namely,
that there is no place for a rational decision with respect to prices as there is with respect ...
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A note on the specification of the fisher equation under inflation uncertainty

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MI Blejer… - Economics Letters, 1979 - Elsevier
Abstract The effect of uncertainty on the relationship between the nominal interest rate and
the expected rate of inflation, the Fisher equation, is examined both theoretically and
empirically. It is found that the coefficient of the expected rate of inflation is significantly ...
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THE INSURANCE‐BUYING GAMBLER

B Eden - Economic Inquiry, 1980 - Wiley Online Library
According to Friedman and Savage (1948) the “willingness of individuals,..., who buy
insurance against a small risk to enter into small fair gambles” is inexplicable, In this paper
we try to provide a rationale for the behavior of a gambler who buys any type of insurance ...
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The nominal system: Linkage to the quantity of money or to nominal income

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B Eden - Revue economique, 1979 - JSTOR
Quand l'offre de monnaie est stable, les agents économiques veulent employer la monnaie
comme unité de compte dans leurs contrats futurs; par conséquent, il faudrait, quand il se
produit des perturbations monétaires, préserver les contrats émis en termes nominaux. C' ...
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[CITATION] Competitive price setting, price flexibility, and linkage to the money supply

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B Eden - Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public …, 1983 - ideas.repec.org
If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to
view it first. Information about this may be contained in the File-Format links below. In case of
further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site ...
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Inefficient trade patterns: Excessive trade, cross-hauling and dumping

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B Eden - Journal of International Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
I study an example of a competitive environment in which trade occurs in a sequential
manner. In this example, a country with a stable demand may suffer from trade with a country
with unstable demand, there may be too much trade, a country may import and export the ...
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Reserve requirements and output fluctuations

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B Bental… - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2002 - Elsevier
When trade is uncertain and sequential, a fractional reserve banking system may give rise to
endogenous monetary shocks. These endogenous monetary shocks lead to fluctuations in
capacity utilization and waste. When fluctuations in the currency/deposit ratio are the ...
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[CITATION] How to Subsidize Education and Achieve Voluntary Integration: An Analysis of Voucher Systems

B Eden - Working Papers, 1992 - econpapers.repec.org
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[CITATION] Time Rigidities in the Adjustment of Prices to Monetary Shocks: An Analysis of Micro Data

B Eden… - 1994 - Research Department, Bank of Israel
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Competitive Price Adjustment to Changes in the Money Supply

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B Eden - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1982 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract In a competitive environment in which (ex ante) identical sellers set prices, the
market price cannot always be based on updated information, since otherwise there will be
no incentive to gather information about changes in demand. This result is applied to the ...
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[CITATION] VRigid prices: evidence from US scanner dataV

JR Campbell… - 2004 - mimeo
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Trading Uncertainty and the Cash-in-advance Constraint

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B Eden - Journal of Monetary Economics, 1986 - Elsevier
Abstract It is argued that when money and bonds are distinct and money yields a lower rate
of return, the quantity of private bonds that is exchanged for money is a signal for demand in
the near future. Therefore, competitive price setters who observe transactions in the ...
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[CITATION] Aspects of uncertainty in simple monetary models

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Inventories and the Business Cycle: Testing a Sequential Trading Model

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B Eden - Review of Economic Dynamics, 2001 - Elsevier
The uncertain and sequential trading (UST) model of inventories behavior with iid shocks
predicts that (a) the beginning of period inventories is a sufficient statistic for past variables
and (b) an increase in the beginning of period inventories reduces output, employment, ...
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[PDF] How to Subsidize Education: An Analysis of Voucher Systems

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B Eden - University of Iowa, 1994 - vanderbilt.edu
ABSTRACT It is argued that simple vouchers are not sufficient for successful
decentralization: To achieve the socially desired outcome, the government must pay schools
for the educational outputs in addition to payments for the employment of students. Once ...
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[PDF] International Seigniorage Payments

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B Eden - Manuscript. Nashville: Vanderbilt University, 2007 - vanderbilt.edu
Cash may disappear in a technological advanced society. Will seigniorage payments
disappear? In Woodford (2003) cashless economy, money does not enter as an argument
into the utility function and therefore interest must be paid on it. In his cashless economy ...
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Trading uncertainty, enforcement and labor unions

B Eden - Economic inquiry, 1985 - Wiley Online Library
* Professor of Economics, The University of Iowa. Versions of this paper were presented at
the Econometric Society meeting and the NBER economic fluctuations workshop, both in the
summer of 1983. In addition to the participants in those meetings, I would like to thank J. ...
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On aversion to positive risks and preference for negative risks

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B Eden - Economics Letters, 1979 - Elsevier
Abstract An intertemporal Von Neumann-Morgenstern utility function may account for
aversion to risks when only gains are at stake and preference for risks when only losses are
at stake. It may therefore be used to account for the findings of Markowitz and Kahneman ...
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[CITATION] Indexation and related issues: A review essay

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B Eden - Journal of Monetary Economics, 1985 - econpapers.repec.org
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and related issues: A review essay. Benjamin Eden (). Journal of Monetary Economics, 1985, vol.
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[CITATION] A course in monetary economics

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[CITATION] Labor Contracts, Enforcement and Aggregate Unemployment

B Eden - University of Iowa, mimeo, 1985
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[PDF] Seemingly Rigid Prices

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B Eden - The University of Haifa, 2002 - vanderbilt.edu
I study the choice of capacity and capacity utilization in competitive environments with
demand uncertainty and risk neutral agents. This is done under the assumption that it is too
costly to gather all potential buyers and run a Walrasian auction. But there are no costs for ...
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[CITATION] Inflation and Price Dispersion: An Analysis of Micro Data

B Eden… - 1994 - Research Department, Bank of Israel
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ON THE UNIT OF ACCOUNT FUNCTION OF MONEY THE USE OF LOCAL CURRENCY WHEN LESS INFLATIONARY CURRENCIES ARE AVAILABLE

B Eden - Economic Inquiry, 1983 - Wiley Online Library
To justify the use of money when other assets with more attractive rates of return are
available, it is common to add some friction andlor restriction to the standard general
equilibrium analysis. Various specifications of transaction costs, Clower's constraint and ...
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On the competitive resolution of trading uncertainty

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SE Landsburg… - Journal of Economic Theory, 1989 - Elsevier
Abstract We present a model in which sellers must set prices in the face of uncertain
demand. Demand is realized sequentially and sellers who set low prices sell before those
who set high prices. Sellers who set high prices sell only when the realization of demand ...
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[CITATION] Monetary Economics and Sequential Trade, to be published in the year 2000 by Blackwell

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[CITATION] The Choice of Nominal Price Changes by Individual Stores: An Empirical Analysis of Data from High Inflation Periods

B Eden - 1995 - Working Paper
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[CITATION] VRigid prices: evidence from US scanner data

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Efficient barriers to trade: A sequential trade model with heterogeneous agents

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B Eden - Journal of International Economics, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper studies the choice of tariffs and other type of consumption taxes and subsidies in
a flexible price version of the Prescott [Prescott, Edward C., 1975. Efficiency of the Natural
Rate. Journal of Political Economy 83, 1229–1236.] hotels model. It is shown that a ...
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[CITATION] On the Specification of the Demand for Money: Some Theoretical and Empirical Results

B Eden - MS, University of Chicago, 1974
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Productivity, Market Power and Capacity Utilization When Spot Markets are Complete

B Eden… - 1991 - nber.org
Our test of price-taking behavior looks at the choice of capacity rather than the choice of
output. It is motivated by a complete spot markets model in which goods are distinguished by
the selling probabilities in addition to other characteristics. When output is explained by ...
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[PDF] Rigidity, Dispersion and Discreteness in Chain Prices

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B Eden… - Working Papers, 2009 - vanderbilt.edu
This paper studies price setting within a chain of grocery stores, using a scanner database
that contains observations of retail prices for 435 products within 75 stores over 121 weeks.
We find price dispersion within the chain. Although price dispersion is pervasive 75% of ...
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Introduction to monetary economics

B Eden - 2005 - Wiley Online Library
In the first part of this book we use standard monetary models to talk about the joint behavior
of nominal and real variables. We start with the long-run relationship focusing on the
relationship between money and inflation. The focus then shifts to the short-run ...
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[PDF] Sticky Prices in a Cash-in-advance Model: Does Money Matter?

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B Eden - 2003 - vanderbilt.edu
The importance of controlling the money supply has been debated for a long time. Friedman
and Schwartz (1963) argued that money plays an important role in causing the business
cycle and since money works with a long and variable lag ak% rule is optimal. This has ...
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Inflation and relative price variability:: A comment

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B Eden - Economics Letters, 1994 - Elsevier
Abstract The unconditional variance of the rate of nominal price change can always be
expressed as a function of the unconditional mean. Therefore the relationship between the
unconditional variance and the unconditional mean cannot be used to distinguish among ...
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[CITATION] On the Specification of the Demand for Money during the Hyperinflations

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[PDF] Substitution, Risk Aversion and Asset Prices: An Expected Utility Approach

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B Eden - Working Papers, 2008 - vanderbilt.edu
Since the discovery of the risk premium puzzle by Mehra and Prescott (1985) there has been
a debate about the choice of the representative agent's utility function. In his presidential
address Lucas (2003) followed Mehra and Prescott in using the standard power utility ...
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[CITATION] Using Consumption Data for Measuring the Time Resolution of Uncertainty

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[CITATION] Uncertain Market Conditions and Gains from Trade: A Sequential Trade Model with Heterogeneous Buyers

B Eden - 2005 - Vanderbilt University working paper
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Stochastic dominance without risk aversion

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B Eden - Economics Letters, 1979 - Elsevier
Economics Letters 2 (1979) 315320 NorthHolland Publishing Company STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE
WITHOUT RISK AVERSION Benjamin EDEN The Hebrew University and Falk Institute,
Jerusalem, Israel Received 30 April 1979 The time at which uncertainty is being resolved, ...
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On Competitive Price Adjustment for a Storable Good and Abstention from Trade

B Eden - The Journal of Political Economy, 1983 - JSTOR
The public good aspect of information is used to account for periods in which the aggregate
level of trade is low. It is shown that abstention from trade may occur when the uncertainty
with respect to the market-clearing price (there is no auctioneer) gets large relative to the ...
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[PDF] Substitution and Risk Aversion: Is Risk Aversion Important for Understanding Asset Prices?

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B Eden - Vanderbilt University, Department of Economics WP, 2004 - nber.org
Since the discovery of the risk premium puzzle by Mehra and Prescott (1985) there has been
a lot of debate about the magnitude of risk aversion. In his presidential address Lucas
(2003) followed Mehra and Prescott in using the standard power utility function: βtU (Ct) t
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[CITATION] Inflation and Price Adjustment: An Analysis of Micro Data

B Eden - Working Papers, 1994 - econpapers.repec.org
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Discreteness and Nominal Rigidity: Do Supermarket Prices Move Too Much?

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B Eden… - 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We assess the ability of the cross sectional price distribution to react to shocks from
the point of view of a Prescott “hotels” type model, using a sample of 435 products in 75
stores over 121 weeks. We argue that the cross sectional distribution is flexible in spite of ...
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[PDF] Liquidity, Equity Premium and Participation

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B Eden - Working Papers, 2007 - vanderbilt.edu
The idea that liquidity is important for assets returns is not new. Recently, McGrattan and
Prescott (2003) have argued that short term US government securities provide liquidity and
are therefore overpriced. Amihud (2002) and Cochrane (2003) argued that some stocks ...
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[CITATION] Time Perspective in Behavior Towards Risk and the Economics of Gambling

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On the Specification of the Demand-for-Money Function under Rapid Inflation: Some Empirical Evidence

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B Eden… - The Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue …, 1980 - JSTOR
Recently Eden (1976) has shown that for risk-neutral consumers the demand for money
should be specified as a function of the expected real rate of return on money and not as a
function of the expected rate of inflation. This paper presents empirical evidence which ...
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[CITATION] Inventories in a Competitive Environment: An Empirical Study of a Housing Market

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[PDF] Toward a Theory of Competitive Price Adjustment

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B Eden - UCLA Economics Working Papers, 1980 - econ.ucla.edu
—For other attempts see the recent symposium on perfect competition in the Journal of
Economic Theory, April 1980. For some literature on monopolistic price adjustment, see
Gordon and Heynes (1970), Barro (1972) and Sheshinski and Weiss (1977, 1979).
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Resolution of Uncertainty and Asset Prices: Why the Timing of Information Release Might be Relevant After All

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B Eden… - Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 1999 - Springer
The objective of this paper is to reexamine the effects of the timing of information releases on
security prices. We extend Ross (1989) by allowing the timing of information releases to
affect the martingale probabilities. We show that if the early release of information is ...
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[PDF] INVENTORIES AND THE BUSINESS CYCLE: TESTING THE IMPLICATIONS OF A UST MODEL

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B Eden - 1999 - vanderbilt.edu
I test the implications of a monetary version of the Uncertain and Sequential Trading (UST)
model using post war US data. The data support the hypothesis about the effect of demand
shocks: Low demand has a persistent positive effect on inventories and a persistent ...
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[PDF] Seigniorage and the desirability of national monies

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B Eden - Vanderbilt University and The University of Haifa, 2005 - vanderbilt.edu
Should a country discourage currency substitution? Should it have its own national
currency? These questions have occupied monetary economics and international finance
for a long time. Fischer (1982) argued that countries choose to have national money to ...
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[CITATION] Sequential Trade, Search Externalities and Inventories: Do Houses Sell Faster in Thick Markets?

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[PDF] EFFICIENCY, VACANCY RATES AND OVERBOOKING IN A SEQUENTIAL TRADE MODEL

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B Eden - 1999 - vanderbilt.edu
Uncertain and Sequential Trading (UST) models are based on ideas in Prescott (1975) and
Butters (1977). In a review article of the Phelps volume, Prescott provides a counter example
to the view that precautionary unemployment is likely to be excessive because sellers of ...
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[CITATION] Perfect Competition for Economies with Asymmetric Information

B Eden - Working Papers, 1991 - ideas.repec.org
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[PDF] THE WELFARE COST OF INFLATION, WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION AND THE LUCAS-STOKEY LOANS PROGRAM

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B Eden - 2007 - vanderbilt.edu
The nominal interest rate is often viewed as a tax on real balances. Understanding the
working of an economy with zero nominal interest is therefore crucial for estimating the
welfare cost of this tax. Yet there is little agreement on exactly how a zero nominal interest- ...
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[PDF] Implementing the Friedman Rule by a Government Loan Program: An Overlapping Generations Model

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B Eden - Working Papers, 2008 - vanderbilt.edu
The welfare gains from adopting a zero nominal interest policy depend on the
implementation details. Here I argue that implementing the Friedman rule by a government
loan program may be better than implementing it by collecting taxes, even when lump sum ...
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[CITATION] Linked Versus Flexible Exchange Rate and the Functions of Money in an Open Economy

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[PDF] THE ROLE OF PRICE DISCRETENESS IN EXPLAINING PRICE DISPERSION AND PRICE CHANGES IN A CHAIN

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B Eden, MS Jaremski - 2009 - www-new.vanderbilt.edu
This paper studies price setting within a chain of grocery stores, using a scanner database
that contains observations of retail prices for 435 products within 75 stores over 121 weeks.
We find price dispersion within the chain. Stores differentiate themselves by the prices of ...
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[CITATION] Money Non-Neutrality when Spot Market are Complete

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[PDF] THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN THE CONSUMER LOANS MARKET

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B Eden - 2009 - vanderbilt.edu
The paper analyzes a government loan program that complements money. The focus is on
administrative costs and the difference between the collection technologies available to the
public and the private sectors. Among the questions addressed are: the optimal monetary ...
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[CITATION] MONETARY ECONOMICS AND SEQUENTIAL TRADE

B EDEN - 2002
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[PDF] Money, Credit and Inventories in a Sequential Trading Model

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B Eden - 2001 - vanderbilt.edu
I introduce inside money and serially correlated supply shocks to the Uncertain and
Sequential Trading (UST) monetary model and test its implications using a vector auto
regression impulse response analysis on post-war US data. I find that (a) The importance ...
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[CITATION] SEQUENTIAL TRADE, MONEY AND UNCERTAINTY

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[PDF] Liquidity Premium and International Seigniorage Payments

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B Eden - Working Papers, 2009 - www-new.vanderbilt.edu
It seems that dollar denominated assets held by non-US residents earn a lower rate of return
than comparable alternatives. In a recent study, Gourinchas and Rey (2005) found that
during the post Bretton Woods era (1973-2004) the real rate of return on foreign bonds ...
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[PDF] С V. STARR CENTER FOR APPLIED ECONOMICS

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B Eden… - econ.nyu.edu
ABSTRACT This paper argues that some of the volatility of stock prices in excess of
fundamentals results from fluctuations in the amount of public information over time. The
model assumes that dividends and consumption are constant in the aggregate but that ...
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[PDF] Intergenerational Intermediation and Altruistic Preferences

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B Eden - Working Papers, 2011 - vanderbilt.edu
The paper analyzes the intermediation role of government under the assumption that it has
an advantage over the private sector in collecting uncollateralized loan payments. It is
shown that a government loan program may improve the welfare of all generations ( ...
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[CITATION] Reply to Alvin Marty

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Sequential International Trade

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B Eden - 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The following observations have provoked a lot of discussion in the international trade
literature:(1) countries trade in similar goods;(2) there are government made barriers to
trade; and (3) there is a strong correlation between changes in the real and the nominal ...
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[CITATION] Trading uncertainty, markups, and productivity A comment on hall's paper

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uncertainty, markups, and productivity A comment on hall's paper. Benjamin Eden ().
Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1987, vol. 27, issue 1, pages 445-452. ...
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Consumption Smoothing and the Equity Premium

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B Eden - Working Papers, 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The paper investigates the role of the Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution (IES) in
determining the equity premium. This is done in an overlapping generations economy
populated by agents that live for 2 periods and maximize a Kihlstrom-Mirman expected ...
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[PDF] The Role of Government in the Credit Market

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B Eden - Working Papers, 2009 - www-new.vanderbilt.edu
The paper analyzes a government loan program that complements money. The focus is on
administrative costs and the difference between the collection technologies available to the
public and the private sectors. Among the questions addressed are: the optimal monetary ...
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[CITATION] A MONETARY SHOCK IN AN UNCERTAIN AND SEQUENTIAL TRADE MODEL

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[CITATION] The Nominal System Under Ideal Conditions

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[BOOK] The Real Effects of Reserve Requirements

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B Bental… - 1998 - Citeseer
ABSTRACT We review arguments for and against reserve requirements and conclude that
the main question is whether a distinction between money creation and intermediation can
be made. We argue that such a distinction can be made in a money-in-advance economy ...
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[PDF] On the Use of Local Currency When Less Inflationary Currencies are Available: An Overlapping Generations Model

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B Eden - UCLA Economics Working Papers, 1980 - econ.ucla.edu
Why do economic agents tend to use the local currency even when there exists a foreign
currency with a lower rate of inflation? The standard argument is that the local currency
provides liquidity services. This argument does not explain why foreign currencies cannot ...
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[PDF] Sticky Prices and Sequential Trade

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B Eden - 2001 - hevra.haifa.ac.il
Sticky price models attribute the short run real effects of money to the presence of price
rigidities. It is typically assumed that (a) prices do not adjust immediately to changes in the
money supply and (b) there is a commitment on the part of the firm to supply any quantity ...
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[PDF] The Friedman Rule in an Overlapping Generations Model: Social Security in Reverse

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B Eden - Working Papers, 2007 - vanderbilt.edu
The welfare gains from adopting a zero nominal interest policy depend on the
implementation details. Here I focus on a government loan program that crowds out lending
and borrowing and other money substitutes. Since money can be costlessly created the ...
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[BOOK] Competitive Price Adjustment and Linkage to the Money Supply

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B Eden - 1981 - econ.ucla.edu
Recently I have applied an argument by Grossman and Stiglitz (1980) to an economy with
no auctioneer and argued that in equilibrium, some sellers will advertise prices which are
not based on updated information. To see this point, consider the problem of a seller who ...
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[CITATION] The Effect of Different Financing Methods on the Extent of School Integration

B Eden… - … advancement and distributive …, 1995 - Magnes Press, Hebrew University
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[CITATION] Inventories, Time on the Market and Prices in an Economy with Uncertain and Sequential Trade: Theory and an Empirical Test

JL Horowitz… - Working Papers, 1995 - econpapers.repec.org
By JL Horowitz and Benjamin Eden; Inventories, Time on the Market and Prices in an Economy
with Uncertain and Sequential Trade: Theory and an Empirical. ... JL Horowitz () and Benjamin
Eden () Additional contact information JL Horowitz: University of Iowa. ...
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[CITATION] Production and Inventory Behavior When Sport Markets are Complete

B Bental… - Working Papers, 1991 - econpapers.repec.org
By Benjamin Bental and Benjamin Eden; Production and Inventory
Behavior When Sport Markets are Complete.
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Measuring the Variance-Age Profile of Lifetime Income

B Eden, A Pakes - 1979 - nber.org
This paper presents an operational meaning to the concept of the variance in lifetime
income in terms of the discounted variance of T mutually uncorrelated, sequentially realized,
random variables. It is then shown how the logical implications of the lifecycle ...
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[PDF] Living with a Monetary System infected by Bubbles

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B Eden - Working Papers, 2011 - vanderbilt.edu
I study the real effects of bubbles in a price-setting environment. Bubbles cause price
dispersion and overinvestment in assets that are overvalued. And when they pop some
goods are not sold and capacity is not fully utilized. I argue that a government monopoly ...
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[PDF] Costly Intermediation and the Friedman Rule

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B Eden - 2012 - vanderbilt.edu
I examine the implementation of the Friedman rule under the assumption that age
dependent lump sum transfers are possible and private intermediation is costly. This is done
both in an infinitely lived agents model and in an overlapping generations model. I argue ...
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