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Retail petroleum markets in Mexico are on the cusp of a historic deregulation. For decades, all 11,000 gasoline … gasoline and diesel. In this paper, we provide an economic perspective on Mexico's nascent deregulation. Although in many ways …, but the deregulation has enormous potential to increase efficiency and, eventually, to reduce prices …
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Increased availability of temptation goods might harm individuals if they have time-inconsistent preferences and consume more in the present than planned before. We study this idea by examining the credit behavior of low-income households around the expansion of the opening hours of retail...
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States intensified, ameliorated, or had no effect on income distribution. We find that branch deregulation lowered income … inequality. Deregulation lowered income inequality by affecting labor market conditions, not by boosting the business income of …
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"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since 1977. Following liberalization, the sector adopted an...
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profits. Instead of such an equilibrium, a deregulation race is likely to emerge in which all but the last country repeal … their antitrust laws. The deregulation race results in a chain of Stackelberg leadership positions taken over by national …
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A first step in the 'big bang' markets was the deregulation of the foreign exchange market on April 1, 1998. This paper … the deregulation. Intra-day data are analyzed with the following results: (1) Holding constant the effects of volume and … volatility, the deregulation was associated with a convergence of Japanese quoted spreads toward those of other banks. (2 …
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This paper deals with the relation between commercial policy and "the" equilibrium real exchange rate. The paper clarifies the meaning of real exchange rate by comparing five different definitions that are currently found in the literature, The analysis focuses on the effects of an economic...
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This paper describes the effects of deregulation on negotiated wage rates and employment levels of aircraft mechanics … real wage rates since deregulation,and only recent increases in interfirm wage differentials. Employment growth rates, on …-entrant airlines. The data suggest that deregulation resulted in a transfer of 5000-7000 maintenance jobs from the incumbent trunks to …
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