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ERIC Number: EJ696283
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Jun-1
Pages: 34
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-3808
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An Ss Model with Adverse Selection.
House, Christopher L.; Leahy, John V.
Journal of Political Economy, v112 n3 p581 Jun 2004
We present a model of the market for a used durable in which agents face fixed costs of adjustment, the magnitude of which depends on the degree of adverse selection in the secondary market. We find that, unlike typical models, the sS bands in our model contract as the variance of the shock increases. We also analyze a dynamic version of the model in which agents are allowed to make decisions that are conditional on the age of the durable. We find that, as the durable ages, the lemons problem tends to decline in importance, and the sS bands contract.
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