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 After doubling between 1950 and 1980, the total volume of water withdrawn has stabilized and even ….S. to produce each dollar of its GDP with increasingly less water stems from long-term structural changes of the U …

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 …

differentiated product market to be introduced. This contribution allows price-cost margins to be recovered from estimates of demand … bottled water in France. Our empirical evidence shows that manufacturers and retailers use nonlinear pricing contracts and in …

part tariffs contracts. Our contribution allows to recover price-cost margins from estimates of demand parameters both … retailing bottled water in France. Our empirical evidence shows that manufacturers and retailers use non linear pricing …

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 …

residential demand for oil or water). The laxity of fee policies adopted by patent offices over the past 25 years therefore … observed in major patent offices. We provide the first panel-based evidence suggesting that fees affect the demand for patents …

(EPC). We provide a first empirical evidence showing that the fee elasticity of the demand for priority applications is …

This paper provides evidence that learning about demand is an important driver of firms' dynamics. We present a simple … model with Bayesian learning in which firms are uncertain about their idiosyncratic demand parameter in each of the markets … their beliefs following a new demand shock, the younger they are. To test this learning mechanism, we make use of a specific …