of demand parameters. We apply it to the market of bottled water in France, estimating a mixed logit demand model on …

investigate to what extent countries make efficient use of the very uneven water resources on a global scale. In particular, I … find that countries that are relatively water abundant tend to export more water-intensive products. This evidence supports … the hypothesis that water is a source of comparative advantage. My findings also indicate that water contributes …

In most developed countries, the provision of water is organized at a local level. The costs and tariffs vary … significantly, even between adjacent water utilities. Such heterogeneity is an obvious indication of the sector’s overall … inefficiency and stresses a need for institutional adjustments. We show that cooperation by water trade and the introduction of …

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 After doubling between 1950 and 1980, the total volume of water withdrawn has stabilized and even ….S. to produce each dollar of its GDP with increasingly less water stems from long-term structural changes of the U …

bottled water in France. Our empirical evidence shows that manufacturers and retailers use nonlinear pricing contracts and in …

retailing bottled water in France. Our empirical evidence shows that manufacturers and retailers use non linear pricing …

properties of the estimated consumption/portfolio rules, under both the empirical and the true dynamics of excess returns. The … consider, the estimation issues are so severe that simple unconditional consumption and portfolio rules actually outperform (in …

This paper sheds new light on the interactions between business cycles and the consumption distribution. We use CEX … consumption data and a factor model to characterize the cyclical dynamics of the consumption distribution. We first establish that … our approach is able to closely match business cycle fluctuations of consumption from the National Account. We then study …

-rich households consume a larger share of their current income when exposed to a higher top income and consumption levels. We argue …

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. …