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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Can a Continuously-Liquidating Tontine (or Mutual Inheritance Fund) Succeed where Immediate Annuities Have Floundered?

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
A new instrument (the Mutual Inheritance Fund or MIF) is proposed whose purpose is to help people carry their savings forward from the moment they retire into their old age. Like annuities, this instrument requires an up-front payment before people receive any benefits... View Details
Keywords: Age; Annuities; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Saving; Retirement
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  • July 2009
  • Article

Attitude Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Keywords: Voting; Attitudes
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  • October 2008
  • Article

Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model with Monopsony

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Economics
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  • 2006
  • Chapter

Altruism, Cooperation and Reciprocity in the Workplace

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Keywords: Working Conditions; Cooperation; Attitudes
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  • June 2008
  • Article

Minimally Acceptable Altruism and the Ultimatum Game

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
I suppose that people react with anger when others show themselves not to be minimally altruistic. With heterogeneous agents, this can account for the experimental results of ultimatum and dictator games. Moreover, it can account for the surprisingly large fraction of... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Game Theory; Mathematical Methods
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  • 2002
  • Working Paper

Endogenous Altruism in Buyer-Seller Relations and Its Implications for Vertical Integration

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
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  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

disbursements are relatively more staggered. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://www.nber.org/papers/w14074 Attitude-Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

barriers to commercialization? What made Du Pont so confident that it could succeed at this uncertain time? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810084-PDF-ENG New York Life and Immediate Annuities Julio View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Fall 2013
  • Article

Shifts in U.S. Federal Reserve Goals and Tactics for Monetary Policy: A Role for Penitence?

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This paper considers some of the large changes in the Federal Reserve's approach to monetary policy. It shows that, in some important cases, critics who were successful in arguing that past Fed approaches were responsible for mistakes that caused harm succeeded in... View Details
Keywords: Central Banking; Policy; United States
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Attitude-Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This paper presents a goal-oriented model of political participation based on two psychological assumptions. The first is that people are more altruistic towards individuals that agree with them and the second is that people's well-being rises when other people share... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Market Participation; Attitudes
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  • 1991
  • Comment

Commentary: Monetary Aggregates and Their Uses

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Keywords: Money
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  • March – April 1993
  • Comment

Commentary on 'Monetary Aggregates, Monetary Policy and Economic Activity'

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Keywords: Money; Policy; Economics
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  • June 2003
  • Teaching Note

Competition Policy in the European Union and the Power of Microsoft (TN)

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Teaching Note for (9-701-043). View Details
Keywords: Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; European Union; United States
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  • April 2003
  • Teaching Note

Fresh Start? Peru's Legacy of Debt and Default (A) (TN)

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Teaching Note for (9-703-001). View Details
Keywords: Peru
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  • July 2000 (Revised August 2000)
  • Teaching Note

The U.S. Banking Panic of 1933 and Federal Deposit Insurance (TN)

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Teaching Note for (9-799-077). View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Government and Politics; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; United States
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  • February 2007
  • Article

The Persistence of Inflation Versus that of Real Marginal Cost in the New Keynesian Model

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This note provides an example where the New Keynesian Phillips Curve leads inflation to be substantially more persistent than the output gap. View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Inflation and Deflation; Cost
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  • 1999
  • Working Paper

A Heuristic Method for Extracting Smooth Trends from Economic Time Series

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
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  • 1998
  • Working Paper

Government-Enforced Cartels, Outputs and Welfare

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
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  • March–April 2013
  • Article

Expected Firm Altruism, Quality Provision, and Brand Extensions

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
A setting is considered where consumers keep track of the extent to which brands care about them, which is modeled as altruism of brands towards their target consumers. Consumers who purchase an experience good of high quality reasonably deduce that the supplier of... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Quality; Consumer Behavior; Attitudes; Brands and Branding
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  • May 2008
  • Teaching Note

Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Teaching Note for [708042]. View Details
Keywords: Mortgages; Debt Securities; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Central Banking; Policy; United States; Europe
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