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Inefficient Trade Patterns: Excessive Trade, Cross-Hauling, and Dumping
(Vanderbilt University, 2005)
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 ...
Efficient Barriers to Trade: A Sequential Trade Model with Heterogeneous Agents
(Vanderbilt University, 2007)
This paper studies a flexible price version of the Prescott (1975) hotels model. Unlike rigid price versions of the model, here the equilibrium outcome is efficient if potential buyers have the same downward sloping demand ...
Liquidity, Equity Premium and Participation'
(Vanderbilt University, 2007)
I use price dispersion to model liquidity. Buyers may be rationed at the low price. An asset is more liquid if it is used relatively more in low price transactions and the probability that it will buy at the low price is ...
Liquidity Premium and International Seigniorage Payments
(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
Why do people hold dollar denominated assets when higher rate of return alternatives are available? Can a country collect seigniorage payments from other countries in the long run? Does the supplier of the international ...