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baskets of organic products and how this varies across households. We use rich scanner data on food purchases by a large … organic products. These bounds provide information about willingness to pay for organic without imposing restrictive … example by stores to provide robust upper bounds on the revenue implication of introducing a new line of organic products. …
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When a firm decides which products to offer or put on display, it takes into account the products' ability to attract … meets, as well as the indirect demand it generates for the firms' other products. We explore this idea in the context of a … consumers with limited attention. We characterize the equilibrium use of products as attention grabbers and its implications for …
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We study a market model in which competing firms use costly marketing devices to influence the set of alternatives … a function of the marketing devices employed by the firms. We examine the implications of this behavioral model in the … marketing devices and consumers’ conversion rates. …
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reconcile the conflicting primal and dual estimates of productivity growth over the period. …
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This paper examines the importance of buyer-supplier relationships, geography and the structure of the production network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different locations. Low search and outsourcing costs lead firms to...
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-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the nature …
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productivity in the generation segment of the industry. Controlling explicitly for sources of price-heterogeneity across firms and …
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The paper presents new stylized facts on the direction of capital flows. We find (i) international capital flows net of government debt and/or official aid are positively correlated with growth; (ii) sovereign debt flows are negatively correlated with growth only if debt is financed by another...
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The literature has shown that the implied welfare gains from international financial integration are very small. We revisit the existing findings and document that welfare gains can be substantial if capital goods are not perfect substitutes. We use a model of optimal savings that includes a...
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We investigate the roles of productivity and the specificity of inputs for the international sourcing strategy of firms … transaction. The dataset also provides information to estimate the firms' productivity and their intensity in relationship …-specific inputs. After controlling for countries of origin, products and sectors specific effects, the empirical results provide …
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