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, wine in particular, rebounded through all forms of media. In the spring of 2003, French business people even reported that … the boycott calls were hurting their U.S. sales. Using a dataset of sales of nearly 4,700 individual wine brands, we show … that there actually was no boycott effect. Rather, sales of French wine dipped for two reasons. First, they experience a …
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the wine produced. We do this by conducting a hedonic analysis of vineyard sales in the Willamette Valley of Oregon to …
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In this paper we measure the effect of year to year changes in the weather on wine prices and winery revenue in the … Mosel Valley in Germany in order to determine the effect that climate change is likely to have on the income of wine growers …
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and 1890, causing major income losses among wine growing families. Because the insects spread slowly from the southern … affected regions were about 1.8 millimeters shorter than others. This estimate implies that children of wine-growing families …
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overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the remainder exploited as a commons by those choosing to fish …
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constitutions: nonprofit cooperatives and outside ownership. In the former, ownership is shared among a group of consumers on a one … case of perfect competition, an outside owner achieves the first-best; a cooperative typically does not because the rent …'s preferences may not reflect average preferences. Second, in the case where the members of a cooperative have common preference …
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This paper argues that worker cooperatives are prone to redistribution among members, and that this redistribution … distorts incentives. I assume that employment contracts are incomplete. In the model cooperative members pay in a capital … function of output. If the median member has less than average ability, the cooperative will vote for a redistributive schedule …
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This paper develops a model of evolving standards for academic publishing. It is motivated by the increasing tendency of academic journals to require multiple revisions of articles and by changes in the content of articles. Papers are modeled as varying along two quality dimensions: q and r. The...
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Our analysis melds two traditional approaches to promoting quality. The first is restoring the stock of quality. The second is curbing its flow of deterioration. Although both approaches are widely used in real world settings, analytic models have tended to focus on one strategy or the other. We...
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We introduce an instrumental variables approach to estimate the importance of unmeasured quality growth for a set of 66 durable consumer goods. Our instrument is based on predicting which of these 66 goods will display rapid quality growth. Using pooled cross- relatively sections of households...
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