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Nineteenth Century White Physical Activity and Calories : Socioeconomic Status and Diets

Carson, Scott A. - 2014

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the...

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Paternalistic Taxation of Unhealthy Food and the Intensive Versus Extensive Margin of Obesity

Kalamov, Zarko Y. - 2018

This paper shows that if an individual's health costs are U-shaped in weight with a minimum at some healthy weight level and if the individual has both self control problems and rational motives for over- or underweight, the optimal paternalistic tax on unhealthy food mitigates the individual's...

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Nineteenth Century Black and Mulatto Physical Activity, Calories, and Life Expectancy

Carson, Scott A. - 2021

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study considers how black and mulatto basal metabolic rates and calories varied with economic development. During the 19th century, black physical activity and net nutrition declined during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

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Do Economic Crises Lead Tourists to Closer Destinations? An Analysis of Italy's Regional Data

Cafiso, Gianluca - 2015

This article investigates whether the distance between origin and destination has played an increased role in shaping Italy's domestic tourism flows during the recent years of economic recession. Indeed, the occurrence of closer tourism destinations, as a consequence of the economic crisis, has...

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Nursing Home Choice, Family Bargaining and Optimal Policy in a Hotelling Economy

Leroux, M.‐L. - 2016

The family plays a central role in decisions relative to the provision of long term care (LTC). We develop a model of family bargaining to study the impact of the distribution of bargaining power within the family on the choices of nursing homes, and on the location and prices chosen by nursing...

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Competition between State Universities

Grazzini, Lisa - 2011

We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching …

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Competition and Trust : Evidence from German Car Manufacturers

Felli, Leonardo - 2011

We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...

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Emotions in Litigation Contests

Baumann, Florian - 2011

This paper introduces the concept of emotions into the standard litigation contest. Positive (negative) emotions emerge when litigants win (lose) at trial and are dependent in particular on the level of defendant fault. Our findings establish that standard results of litigation contests change...

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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …

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Bank Competition, Asset Allocations and Risk of Failure : An Empirical Investigation

Boyd, John H. - 2010

This study is an empirical investigation of theoretical predictions concerning the impact of bank competition on bank … risk and asset allocations. Recent work (Boyd, De Nicolò and Jalal, 2009, BDNJ henceforth) predicts that as competition in … of competition. We also find that as competition intensifies, borrower risk decreases and the loan-to-asset ratio …

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