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Firewood Collections and Economic Growth in Rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a Household Panel

Baland, Jean-Marie; Libois, Francois; Mookherjee, Dilip - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

A household panel data set is used to investigate the effects of economic growth on firewood collection in Nepal … education, non-farm business assets and road connectivity with reduced collections. Nepal households collected 25% less firewood …

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Education and Household Welfare

Fafchamps, Marcel; Shilpi, Forhad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Using census data from Nepal we examine how the partial derivatives of predicted household welfare vary with parental …

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Export Restrictions and Price Insulation During Commodity Price Booms

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world price volatility. This study shows the nature of the...

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Asia’s Growth, the Changing Geography of World Trade, and Food Security: Projections to 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began with...

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Emerging Economies, Productivity Growth, and Trade with Resource-Rich Economies by 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Rapid economic growth in some emerging economies in recent decades has significantly increased their global economic importance. If this rapid growth continues and is strongest in resource-poor Asian economies, the growth in global demand for imports of primary products also will continue, to...

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Procurement with specialized firms

Boone, Jan; Schottmüller, Christoph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper analyzes optimal procurement mechanisms in a setting where the procurement agency has incomplete information concerning the firms' cost functions and cares about quality as well as price. Low type firms are cheaper than high type firms in providing low quality but more expensive when...

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Factor Adjustments after Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants

Eslava, Marcela; Haltiwanger Jr, John C; Kugler, Adriana D. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In this paper, we analyse employment and capital adjustments using a panel of plants from Colombia. We allow for nonlinear adjustment of employment to reflect not only adjustment costs of labour but also adjustment costs of capital, and vice-versa. Using data from the Annual Manufacturing...

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Economics and Politics of Alternative Institutional Reforms

Caselli, Francesco; Gennaioli, Nicola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

(deregulation) and improving contractual enforcement (legal reform). Deregulation fosters entry, thereby increasing the number of … deregulation, as it preserves incumbents' rents, while at the same time allowing the less efficient among them to transfer control …

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Macroeconomic Effects of Regulation and Deregulation in Goods and Labour Markets

Blanchard, Olivier J; Giavazzi, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Product and labour market deregulation are fundamentally about reducing and redistributing rents, leading economic … players to adjust in turn to this new distribution. Thus, even if deregulation eventually proves beneficial, it comes with … market deregulation, we then use our results to study two specific issues. First, to shed light on macroeconomic evolutions …

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Deregulation, Integration and Market Structure in European Banking

Gual, Jordi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper analyzes the impact of deregulation and market integration policies on the structure of European banking …

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