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Advances in structural demand estimation have substantially improved economists' ability to forecast the impact of mergers. However, these models rely on extensive assumptions about consumer choice and firm objectives, and ultimately observational methods are needed to test their validity....
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of the failed Waxman-Markey bill. First, the MAC is revealed by the price of traded permits. Second, the permit price is …
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We show that standard menu cost models cannot simultaneously reproduce the dispersion in the size of micro-price … changes and the extent to which the fraction of price changes increases with inflation in the U.S. time-series. Though the … Golosov and Lucas (2007) model generates fluctuations in the fraction of price changes, it predicts too little dispersion in …
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feedstocks over the 2007-2022 period. We find that the biofuel mandate will increase corn price by 24%, reduce the price of … reduce the adverse impact of the mandate alone on crop prices and decrease the price of biofuels. However, they impose a …
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This paper investigates factors that explain the large variability in the price of voluntary carbon offsets. We … estimate hedonic price functions using a variety of provider- and project-level characteristics as explanatory variables. We … certifiers, is associated with a price discount. Variables that have no effect on offset prices are the number of projects that a …
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User sanctions influence the legal risk for participants in illegal drug markets. A change in user sanctions may change retail drug prices, depending on how it changes the legal risk to users, how it changes the legal risk to dealers, and the slope of the supply curve. Using a novel dataset with...
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price distributions that look more like the world …-country differences in income distributions to variations in import variety and price distributions. The theoretical predictions are … importers whose income distributions look more similar have more export partners in common and more similar import price …
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In this paper we assess the effects of the MFA/ATC using both world trade and US data after its removal. Previous …
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The Producer Price Index (PPI) for the United States suggests that semiconductor prices have barely been falling in … improve at a rapid pace. Roughly coincident with the shift to slower price declines in the PPI, Intel -- the leading producer … provide a more accurate measure of price change since then. Our preferred hedonic index of MPU prices tracks the PPI closely …
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Aggregate art price patterns mask a lot of underlying variation--both in the time series and in the cross- section. We … discuss relevant recent literature, and illustrate the potential of this approach through a historical study of art price … organization of the art market for long-term price trends …
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