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off. The existence of a ranking changes the demand structure of consumers. With rigid prices and rationing, the change can … be detrimental to consumers due to its effect on rationing. Furthermore, this change in demand can also be detrimental …
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In this paper I develop the Discrete Choice Analytically Flexible (DCAF) model of demand for differentiated products …. DCAF relaxes the constraints imposed on the matrix of own- and cross-price elasticities of demand by popular analytic …-price elasticities of demand. Under well defined constraints on the parameters, which may or may not be imposed in estimation, DCAF is …
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UK to (i) document these differences; (ii) estimate a demand system for food and nutrients, and (iii) simulate …
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We describe a model of fundraising in social groups, where private information about quality of provision is transmitted by social proximity. Individuals engage in voluntary provision of a pure collective good that is consumed by both neighbors and non-neighbors. We show that, unlike in the case...
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The "Easterlin paradox" suggests that there is no link between a society’s economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive...
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Is there an economic rationale for pronatalist policies? In this paper we propose and analyze a particular market failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The friction we investigate is related to the ownership of...
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debates about asset markets. We begin with examples of demand shocks that generate mispricings, arguing that they can stem …
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. When demand is linear, a small restriction on price only increases consumer surplus if the elasticity of demand exceeds the … elasticity of supply; with log-linear or constant-elasticity, demand consumers are always hurt by price controls. The results are … between the demand curve and the industry marginal-revenue curve. …
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Flexible inflation targeting cannot be rationalised using conventional welfare economic criteria, except in a single, practically uninteresting special case. New-Keynesian DSGE models imply that optimal monetary policy implements the Bailey-Friedman Optimal Quantity of Money rule and that actual...
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By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women’s declining relative well-being...
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