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each man, woman, and child living in the UK. The price that internalizes this externality is equivalent to an additional 9p … per alcoholic unit, implying a 20% increase with respect to the current average price. …
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cannabis in the London borough of Lambeth, on hospital admissions related to illicit drug use. To do so, we exploit …
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advertising does not bring about a large expansion of market demand at given prices and when it increases product differentiation … equilibrium prices and thus increase demand. It is argued that this is more likely to happen in mature industries where consumer … increase firms’ profits the weaker the ability of advertising to expand total demand and the less advertising serves to induce …
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This study uses micro data and an OLG model to show that general equilibrium forces are critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. First, we document that parents perceive children as an important source of old-age support and that in partial...
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In this paper we estimate a New-Keynesian DSGE model with heterogeneity in price and wage setting behavior. In a recent … study, Coibion and Gorodnichenko (2011) develop a DSGE model, in which firms follow four different types of price setting … heterogeneity in wage rigidity, such as the persistence in price and the wage inflation, which a standard New Keynesian model with …
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constant markups. The differences are important quantitatively; price differences in Hungarian exports between Germany and the …
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This Paper develops a simple new methodology to test for asset integration and applies it within and between American stock markets. Our technique is tightly based on a general intertemporal asset-pricing model, and relies on estimating and comparing expected risk-free rates across assets....
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This Paper analyses the effect of a possible takeover on information flows and on the terms of trade in business relationships. We consider a long-term relationship between a firm and a privately-informed stakeholder, a buyer for example. In our model, takeovers both increase the surplus from...
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This Paper characterizes the integration patterns of international currency unions (such as the CFA Franc zone and the East Caribbean Currency Area). We empirically explore different features of currency unions, and compare them both to countries with sovereign monies, and to regions within...
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This Paper develops a simple but general methodology to estimate the expected intertemporal marginal rate of substitution or ‘EMRS’, using only data on asset prices and returns. Our empirical strategy is general, and allows the EMRS to vary arbitrarily over time. A novel feature of our...
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