{"title":"INFORMATION ACQUISITION AND DIFFUSION IN MARKETS","authors":"Atabek Atayev, Maarten Janssen","doi":"10.1111/iere.12672","DOIUrl":"10.1111/iere.12672","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Consumers acquire information through their own search efforts or through word-of-mouth communication within their social network. Information diffusion leads to free-riding and less active search. Free-riding consumers also create important positive externalities, however, as they are more likely to compare prices, imposing competitive pressure on firms. We show how market prices depend on network characteristics and search cost. For example, if search cost becomes small, price dispersion disappears, while prices converge to the monopoly level, with expected prices decreasing for small search cost. Prices are lower in societies with more connections, while price dispersion remains even in fully connected societies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48302,"journal":{"name":"International Economic Review","volume":"65 2","pages":"729-753"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/iere.12672","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135666991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ESTIMATION OF PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES WITH OUTPUT AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS","authors":"Scott E. Atkinson, Rong Luo","doi":"10.1111/iere.12675","DOIUrl":"10.1111/iere.12675","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Coal-fired power plants minimize costs subject to output and emission constraints. We model the plants' choice of coal quality and emission abatement to minimize costs under these constraints, allowing for heterogeneous unobserved generation productivity and abatement efficiency. We derive and estimate the plants' cost functions to recover the production technologies. Our data set is a balanced panel of 76 U.S. coal-fired power plants from 1995 to 2005, when the emission permit trading system was viable. We find a dramatic growth in abatement efficiency, a major goal of the Acid Rain Program. By contrast, the growth in generation productivity is positive but small.</p>","PeriodicalId":48302,"journal":{"name":"International Economic Review","volume":"65 2","pages":"755-780"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136018710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MONETARY ASYMMETRIES WITHOUT (AND WITH) PRICE STICKINESS","authors":"IVAN JACCARD","doi":"10.1111/iere.12677","DOIUrl":"10.1111/iere.12677","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The evidence suggests that monetary policy transmission is asymmetric over the business cycle. Interacting financing frictions with a preference for liquidity provides an explanation for this fact. Our model reproduces a set of asset market and business cycle facts. Accounting for the joint dynamics of asset prices and business cycle fluctuations is key; in a variant of the model that is unable to produce realistic macrofinance implications, monetary asymmetries disappear. Resorting to nonlinear techniques is therefore not sufficient to detect monetary asymmetries. Nonlinearities in the transmission mechanism also critically depend on the macrofinance implications of monetary policy models.</p>","PeriodicalId":48302,"journal":{"name":"International Economic Review","volume":"65 2","pages":"1003-1047"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136112636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REGULATORY PROTECTION AND THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION","authors":"Yuan Mei","doi":"10.1111/iere.12676","DOIUrl":"10.1111/iere.12676","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I develop a general equilibrium framework to analyze the welfare consequences of product regulations and their international harmonization. In my model, raising product standards reduces a negative consumption externality, but also increases the marginal and fixed costs of production. When product standards are set noncooperatively, the effects of standards on other countries' wages and number of firms are not internalized, giving rise to an international inefficiency. The World Trade Organization's nondiscrimination principle of national treatment only partly addresses this inefficiency. Welfare losses from abandoning national treatment average 2.8%, whereas the maximum welfare gains from efficient cooperation average 11.8%.</p>","PeriodicalId":48302,"journal":{"name":"International Economic Review","volume":"65 2","pages":"817-850"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134993759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REGULARIZED GMM FOR TIME-VARYING MODELS WITH APPLICATIONS TO ASSET PRICING","authors":"Liyuan Cui, Guanhao Feng, Yongmiao Hong","doi":"10.1111/iere.12678","DOIUrl":"10.1111/iere.12678","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We propose a regularized generalized method of moments (RegGMM) approach to estimating time-varying coefficient models via a ridge fusion penalty with a high-dimensional set of moment conditions. RegGMM only requires a mild condition on the oscillations between consecutive parameter values, accommodating abrupt structural breaks and smooth changes throughout the sample period. RegGMM offers an alternative solution for estimating the time-varying stochastic discount factor model when pricing U.S. equity cross-sectional returns. Our time-varying estimate paths for factor risk prices capture changing performance across multiple risk factors and depict potential regime-switching scenarios. Finally, RegGMM demonstrates superior asset pricing and investment performance gains compared to alternative methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":48302,"journal":{"name":"International Economic Review","volume":"65 2","pages":"851-883"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136113311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GROWTH, HOUSING, AND GLOBAL IMBALANCES","authors":"LUIS FRANJO, LUISA LAMBERTINI, SERHIY STEPANCHUK","doi":"10.1111/iere.12674","DOIUrl":"10.1111/iere.12674","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the decade leading to the Great Recession, the United States experienced rising house prices and current account deficits, whereas China and other fast-growing Asian economies saw rising house prices accompanied by current account surpluses. To explain these differences, we study a transition path in a two-country life-cycle model with housing once the two economies become financially integrated. We allow for asymmetries in productivity growth, the loan-to-value ratio, the life-cycle wage profile, and the population structure across countries. Our findings highlight that differences in the life-cycle pattern of the wage income profile are key to obtaining our results.</p>","PeriodicalId":48302,"journal":{"name":"International Economic Review","volume":"65 2","pages":"623-654"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/iere.12674","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136157185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INVESTMENT HOUSING TAX CONCESSIONS AND WELFARE: A QUANTITATIVE STUDY FOR AUSTRALIA","authors":"Yunho Cho, Shuyun May Li, Lawrence Uren","doi":"10.1111/iere.12673","DOIUrl":"10.1111/iere.12673","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article builds a general equilibrium overlapping generations (OLG) model with heterogeneous agents to study the welfare implications of investment housing tax concessions in Australia. Removing these concessions substantially reduces the landlord rate and the use of debt. There is a steady-state welfare gain equivalent to a 0.13% increase in lifetime consumption if the additional tax revenue from removing the concessions is used to finance a lump-sum transfer to all households. That welfare gain rises to 1.45% if the extra tax revenue is used to provide a transfer to the housing-poor in the form of rental assistance. Over the transition, around 70% of existing households experience a welfare gain and there are important distributional effects in both cases.</p>","PeriodicalId":48302,"journal":{"name":"International Economic Review","volume":"65 2","pages":"781-816"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/iere.12673","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135775294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AN EQUILIBRIUM LABOR MARKET MODEL WITH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL REFERRALS","authors":"Youze Lang, Youzhi Yang","doi":"10.1111/iere.12671","DOIUrl":"10.1111/iere.12671","url":null,"abstract":"<p>About 40% of workers find their jobs through referrals. We distinguish between two types of referrals based on whether the referrer works at the hiring firm (internal referrals) or not (external referrals). Interestingly, jobs found through internal (external) referrals pay more (less) than those found through formal methods. An equilibrium labor market model is then built by introducing an incentive-compatible mechanism through which workers can share job opening information. A nondegenerate wage distribution arises in equilibrium with a wage premium (penalty) for internal (external) referrals. When calibrated, our model can capture these salient features of the U.S. labor market.</p>","PeriodicalId":48302,"journal":{"name":"International Economic Review","volume":"65 2","pages":"655-692"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135803592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COLLEGE EXPANSION, TRADE, AND INNOVATION: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA","authors":"Xiao Ma","doi":"10.1111/iere.12670","DOIUrl":"10.1111/iere.12670","url":null,"abstract":"<p>China has expanded the yearly quota on newly admitted college students by more than seven times since 1999. How did this massive education expansion affect firms' export and innovation choices? I document that after this expansion impacted the labor market, manufacturing firms' innovation increased considerably, especially among exporting firms, accompanied by sizable skill upgrading of exports. I then develop a multi-industry spatial equilibrium model, featuring skill intensity differences across industries and heterogeneous firms' innovation and export choices. Quantitatively, the college expansion explained 72% of increases in China's manufacturing research and development (R&D) intensity between 2003 and 2018 and also triggered export skill upgrading.</p>","PeriodicalId":48302,"journal":{"name":"International Economic Review","volume":"65 1","pages":"315-351"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135803191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}