Using data on the production and usage of cotton, the paper develops estimates for the production and consumption of … textiles and consumption of textiles, and (c) consumption of clothing in India in relation to the rest of the world. … cotton cloth in India during 1795-1940, and based on these numbers, revisits three issues central to interpretations of …

dataset of yearly consumption in the 69 Italian provinces from 1871 to 1913, and use it to estimate the demand for tobacco … considered, tobacco was a normal good in Italy: aggregate tobacco consumption increased with income. Subsequently, we consider …This paper studies the demand for tobacco products in post-unification Italy. We construct a very detailed panel …

argue that the legislation was not particularly focused on youth smoking, despite the rhetoric. However, contrary to …We analyse the major economic issues raised by the 1997 Tobacco Resolution and the ensuing proposed legislation that … were intended to settle tobacco litigation in the United States. By settling litigation largely in return for tax increases …

This paper shows that an advertising ban is more likely to increase – rather than decrease – total consumption when …

We analyse a rich cross-country data set that contains information on attitudes toward trade as well as a broad range …

of several macroeconomic data releases. We provide an initial analysis of the prices of these options. We find that … accurately predict financial market responses to surprises in data. These markets also provide implied probabilities of the full … in surveys of professional forecasts survive in equilibrium, and that these markets are remarkably well calibrated …

market data and an event-study approach, using a daily data set covering a thousand announcements spanning over eighty …

worse crises, we find few clear reliable indicators in the pre-crisis data of the incidence of the Great Recession …