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Water use in the U.S. has followed a remarkable pattern since 1950, not mimicking the almost uninterrupted 110 percent … improvement in per capita GDP. After doubling between 1950 and 1980, the total volume of water withdrawn has stabilized and even ….S. to produce each dollar of its GDP with increasingly less water stems from long-term structural changes of the U …
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-functioning. However, an important role of centralized markets is matching heterogeneous products, such as fish, to buyers of these … products. The high level of differentiation in the Fulton fish market and the institutional structure at the Fulton market has …
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We estimate a dynamic profit-maximization model of a fish wholesaler who can observe consumer characteristics, set … the key features observed in a set of high quality transaction-level data on fish sales collected at the Fulton fish …
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(OLS) is the recommended estimation procedure. Supply to a daily fish market is determined by the previous night’s catch …, so this would appear to be a good example of a recursive market. Despite this, data from the Fulton fish market are …
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This paper investigates spatial variations in product prices using an exhaustive micro dataset on fish transactions …. The data record all transactions between vessels and wholesalers that occur on local fish markets in France during the … year 2007. Spatial disparities in fish prices are sizable, even after fish quality, time, seller and buyer unobserved …
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We study how inefficiencies of market failure may be further amplified by political choices made by interest groups created in the inefficient market. We take an occupational choice framework, where agents are endowed heterogeneously with wealth and talent. In our model, market failure due to...
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I survey the influence of Grossman and Hart's (1986) seminal paper in the field of International Trade. I discuss the implementation of the theory in open-economy environments and its implications for the international organization of production and the structure of international trade flows. I...
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We analyze a firm that produces a final good from multiple intermediates that can each be sourced domestically or from a low-wage country. The model explicitly incorporates that sourcing decisions of intermediates are interdependent. Equilibrium predictions depend crucially on a key modeling...
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Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process of development (i.e., capital accumulation and...
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Using two unifying models and an empirical exercise, this paper presents and extends the main theories linking income distribution and growth, as well as the relevant empirical evidence. The first model integrates the political-economy and imperfect capital markets theories. It allows for...
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