This paper assesses the impact that a potential liberalization of sugar regimes in OECD countries could have on … then simultaneously estimate the impact that changes in domestic sugar prices have on regional wages and employment … depending on worker characteristics. Finally, we measure the impact on household income of a 10% increase in world sugar prices …

contribution of the new, private firms in the Czech Republic to find that production and employment in the clothing industry …

and production decisions. We show how this methodology can be used to determine an optimal sequence of price …. We compare and contrast the high-low model with the conventional microeconomic model of pricing and production. We show … how the firm uses its pricing and production decisions to partition the uncertainty interval it faces and thereby …

payments (e.g. tax rebates) are spent on non-durable household consumption in the quarter that they are received. We develop a … Finances. A version of the model parametrized to the 2001 tax rebate episode is able to generate consumption responses to …

, can explain this disparity. In this chapter we present some estimates of the loss of consumption suffered by unemployed …

growth expectations? 4) What is the potential of such expectation changes for explaining the volatility of consumption to …

If some consumers are liquidity-constrained, aggregate consumption should be ‘excessively sensitive’ to credit … United Kingdom and the United States, we find a substantial impact of credit aggregates on consumption in all countries … considered. Moreover, the borrowing/lending wedge is a significant determinant of consumption in Canada, Japan and the United …

Risk premia in the consumption capital asset pricing model depend on preferences and dividends. We develop a … elasticity of a preference-based stochastic discount factor for pricing assets with respect to the consumption innovation … correlated with individual consumption. …

This paper investigates the implications of budgetary policies for consumption and economic growth. We present a model … a rise in government debt, financed by lump-sum taxes, increases the share of private consumption to national income and … reduces the long-run growth rate. We also show that a rise in government consumption financed by lump-sum taxes reduces both …