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Transition dynamics in equilibrium search
(American Economic Association, 2022)We study a dynamic equilibrium search model where sellers differ in their urgency to liquidate an asset. Buyers strategically make price offers without knowing a given seller’s urgency. We study liquidity and price dynamics ... -
The Turkish appetite for gold: An Islamic explanation
(Elsevier, 2016-06)A significant constituent of household wealth in Turkey is gold. Families accumulate gold especially on a variety of cultural occasions such as female-only gold days, circumcision feasts, and engagement and wedding ceremonies. ... -
Understanding household healthcare expenditure can promote health policy reform
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)Studies of health care expenditure often exclude explanatory variables measuring wealth, despite the intuitive importance and policy relevance. We use the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey to assess ... -
Unemployment flows, participation, and the natural rate of unemployment: Evidence from Turkey
(Elsevier, 2020-06)We use a parsimonious unobserved components model with flow rates to estimate a time-varying unemployment rate trend for Turkey. Our approach is grounded in the modern theory of labor market search. This trend estimate ... -
Welfare and research and development incentive effects of uniform and differential pricing schemes
(Springer, 2021-09-22)This paper is about the application of optimization methods to the analysis of three pricing schemes adopted by one manufacturer in a two-country model of production and trade. The analysis focuses on pricing schemes—one ... -
Will a fat tax work?
(Wiley, 2016-01)Of the many proposals to reverse the obesity epidemic, the most contentious is the use of price-based interventions such as the fat tax. Previous investigations of the efficacy of such initiatives in altering consumption ...
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