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Cross Border Cargo Vehicle Flows
Jr, Thomas M Fullerton; Tinajero, Roberto - EconWPA - 2004
Increases in international merchandise trade plus growth in the northern Mexico maquiladora sector have caused the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124908
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U.S. Domestic Airline Pricing, 1995-2004
Borenstein, Severin - EconWPA - 2005
Between 1995 and 2004, I find that airline prices fell more than 20% adjusted for inflation. I also show that premia at hub airports declined and that there is now substantially less disparity between the cheaper and more expensive airports than there was a decade ago. Still, I find that prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412636
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U.S. Domestic Airline Pricing, 1995-2004
Borenstein, Severin - EconWPA - 2005
Between 1995 and 2004, I find that airline prices fell more than 20% adjusted for inflation. I also show that premia at hub airports declined and that there is now substantially less disparity between the cheaper and more expensive airports than there was a decade ago. Still, I find that prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561460
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The Road to Extinction: Commons with Capital Markets
Dutta, Jayasri; Rowat, Colin - EconWPA - 2004
We study extinction in a commons problem in which agents have access to capital markets. When the commons grows more quickly than the interest rate, multiple equilibria are found for intermediate commons endowments. In one of these, extinction is hastened and welfare decreases in the endowment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556729
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Shocks, Livestock Asset Dynamics, and Social Capital in Ethiopia
Mogues, Tewodaj - EconWPA - 2005
-east of Ethiopia. The period under examination (1996-2003) was marked by severe environmental shocks, including a series of … relates asset paths to initial endowments, we test the hypothesis of wealth divergence and the existence of asset poverty … shocks on livestock capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407676
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Shocks, Sensitivity and Resilience: Tracking the Economic Impacts of Environmental Disaster on Assets in Ethiopia and Honduras
Carter, Michael; Little, Peter; Mogues, Tewodaj; … - EconWPA - 2005
Droughts, hurricanes and other environmental shocks punctuate the lives of poor and vulnerable populations in many … parts of the world. The direct impacts can be horrific, but what are the longer-term effects of such shocks on households … and their livelihoods? Under what circumstances, and for what types of households, will shocks push households into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556023
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Towards Transparency in Finance and Governance
Vishwanath, Tara; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003
The study of transparency is increasingly a more topical, broadly relevant, but also more under-researched enterprise. The Asian financial crisis has highlighted not only the welfare consequences of financial sector transparency, sparking a series of yet unresolved debates, but has also linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561607
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Inter-Regional Price Convergence and Market Integration in Russia
Gluschenko, Konstantin - EconWPA - 2005
The paper analyzes a spatial pattern of goods market integration in Russia. By the spatial pattern is meant a state of each individual region of the country: whether it is integrated, and if not, whether it moves towards integration. Time series of the cost of the basket of 25 basic foods across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407856
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Trade policy, cross-border externalities and lobbies: do linked agreements enforce more cooperative outcomes?
Limão, Nuno - EconWPA - 2002
If, in international agreements, governments “link'' trade to environmental policy (or other issues with non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124914
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Apertura Comercial y Convergencia Regional en Mexico
Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2003
convergencia economica regional en Mexico y los efectos de la apertura comercial. In order to know the effects of trade openess in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125613