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COVID-19 and the Demand for Online Food Shopping Services : Empirical Evidence from Taiwan

Chang, Hung-Hao - 2020

We investigate how the coronavirus pandemic affected the demand for online food shopping services using data from the … largest agri-food e-commerce platform in Taiwan. We find that an additional confirmed case of COVID-19 increased sales by 5 … most, which benefited small farms over agribusinesses. Online food shopping was highly responsive to COVID-19 media …

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Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation and Poverty

Anderson, Kym - 2013

This paper first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade in staple foods … during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes--reductions in import protection or increases in export restraints …, than are designed to provide social protection for the poor when international food prices spike. It also examines the …

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Keeping the Doctor Away : Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative Health Products

Meredith, Jennifer M. - 2013

Household investment in preventative health products is low in developing countries even though benefits from these products are very high. What interventions most effectively stimulate demand? In this paper, we experimentally estimate demand curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala,...

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Dumping and Double Crossing : The (In)Effectiveness of Cost-Based Trade Policy Under Incomplete Information

Kolev, Dobrin R. - 1999

We argue that the rise of antidumping protection and the proliferation of voluntary export restraints are fundamentally inter-related. We show that both can be explained by a cost-based definition of dumping when the domestic government has incomplete information about the foreign firm's costs....

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What Do Voluntary Export Restraints Do?

Krishna, Kala - 1988

This paper has two aims. First, to examine alternative ways of modeling VERS in imperfectly competitive markets. This is important, since the. effects of VERS are sensitive to the models used. Second, to argue that the effects of VERS also depend on whether goods are complements or Substitutes....

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Economic and Policy Uncertainty : Export Dynamics and the Value of Agreements

Carballo, Jeronimo - 2018

We examine the interaction of economic and policy uncertainty in a dynamic, heterogeneous firms model. Uncertainty about foreign income, trade protection and their interaction dampens export investment. This can be mitigated by trade agreements, which are particularly valuable in periods of...

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Demand Shocks, Procurement Policies, and the Nature of Medical Innovation : Evidence from Wartime Prosthetic Device Patents

Clemens, Jeffrey - 2020

We analyze wartime prosthetic device patents to investigate how procurement policy affects the cost, quality, and quantity of medical innovation. Analyzing whether inventions emphasize cost and/or quality requires generating new data. We do this by first hand-coding the economic traits...

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When does Product Liability Risk Chill Innovation? Evidence from Medical Implants

Galasso, Alberto - 2018

Liability laws designed to compensate for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation. We examine this issue by exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by US suppliers of polymers used to manufacture medical implants. Difference-in-differences...

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Deterrence Effects of Antifraud and Abuse Enforcement in Health Care

Howard, David H. - 2020

Estimates of the benefits of antifraud enforcement in health care typically focus on direct monetary damages. Deterrence effects are acknowledged but unquantified. We evaluate the impact of a Department of Justice investigation of hospitals accused of billing Medicare for unnecessary implantable...

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Getting the Price Right? : The Impact of Competitive Bidding in the Medicare Program

Ding, Hui; Duggan, Mark G.; Starc, Amanda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study Medicare's competitive bidding program (CBP) for durable medical equipment (DME). We exploit Medicare claims data to examine both prices and utilization, focusing on continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices to treat sleep apnea. We find that spending falls by 47.2% percent...

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