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Sales and Monetary Policy [PDF]
American Economic Review, 2011 A striking fact about pricing is the prevalence of “sales”: large temporary price cuts followed by prices returning to exactly their former levels. This paper builds a macroeconomic model with a rationale for sales based on firms facing customers with different price sensitivities. Even if firms can adjust sales without cost, monetary policy has large
Bernardo Guimaraes, Kevin D. Sheedy
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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Borsa Istanbul ReviewThis study aims to classify high-growth firms using several machine learning algorithms, including K-Nearest Neighbors, Logistic Regression with L1 (Lasso) and L2 (Ridge) Regularization, XGBoost, Gradient Descent, Naive Bayes and Random Forest ...
Sermet Pekin, Aykut Şengül
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou +3 more
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Is financial constraint an impediment to Firm's high growth?
Borsa Istanbul ReviewThis paper investigates how financial constraints impede firms’ ability to achieve high growth. Using a comprehensive panel dataset of Turkish firms from 2012 to 2021, we analyze the relationship between short-term debt intensity — our proxy for ...
Aykut Şengül, Sermet Pekin, Ufuk Alkan
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Understanding Egg Price Volatility and Policy Implications in the U.S. With Machine Learning
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Eggs are an inexpensive and sustainable source of proteins, but volatility in the U.S. egg prices has intensified in recent years, raising concerns over food affordability and market stability. This study examines the drivers of U.S. egg price dynamics over 2004–2025 using a two‐stage framework that combines LASSO‐based variable selection with
Xuemei Zhao +3 more
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, 2008 First paragraph: The purpose of this chapter is to consider monetary policy in terms of real social experience. Monetary policy making is itself a real social experience for policy makers. In attempting to influence real behaviour, they employ theoretical ideas, conveyed with the rhetoric of expertise, to communicate with market players.
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Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah +3 more
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Development and Supervision of Robo-Advisors under Digital Financial Inclusion in Complex Systems
Complexity, 2021 With the rapid development of the market economy, there are more and more projects in the financial industry, and their complexity and technical requirements are getting higher and higher.
Wensheng Dai
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Is Monetary Policy Overburdened? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 Following the experience of the global financial crisis, central banks have been asked to undertake unprecedented responsibilities. Governments and the public appear to have high expectations that monetary policy can provide solutions to problems that do not necessarily fit in the realm of traditional monetary policy.
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