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Food prices and the multiplier effect of export policy
Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2012
This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss … averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a … complementarity between the price of food in international markets and export policy. Specifically, unilateral actions by exporting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522310
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Medicare and the rise of American medical patenting : the economics of user-driven innovation
Clemens, Jeffrey; Olsen, Morten - 2021
Innovation is part idea generation and part development. We build a model of "innovating-by-doing," whereby ideas come to practitioners. Successful innovation requires that practitioners' ideas be developed through costly effort. Our model nests existing theories of laboratory research and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500504
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Demand shocks, procurement policies, and the nature of medical innovation : evidence from wartime prosthetic device patents
Clemens, Jeffrey; Rogers, Parker - 2020
We analyze wartime prosthetic device patents to investigate how demand and procurement policy can shape medical innovation. We use machine learning tools to develop new data describing the aspects of medical and mechanical innovations that are emphasized in patent documents. Our analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388245
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Quantifying consumer taste in trade : evidence from the food industry
Aw, Bee-yan; Lee, Yi; Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2023
This paper develops an empirical model of consumer taste in twenty-nine Belgium food industries for the period from … substantial taste heterogeneity in food exports across destination countries. Overall, in the large majority of food exports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013494393
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Formal and informal risk sharing in LDCs : theory and empirical evidence
Dubois, Pierre (contributor); Jullien, Bruno (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003630524
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Does financial inclusion enhance per capita income in the least developed countries?
Afonso, António; Blanco-Arana, M. Carmen - 2024
Financial inclusion is a key factor for economic growth in most developing countries. This paper examines the relationship between financial inclusion and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) using panel data for the period 1990-2021. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014514949
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V for vaccines and variants
Delli Gatti, Domenico; Reissl, Severin; Turco, Enrico - 2021
) to evaluate the effects of vaccinations and variants on the epidemic and macroeconomic outlook. Vaccination plays the …, increasing the volatility of epidemic curves and worsening the macroeconomic outlook. If a more contagious variant emerges after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619411
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Optimally controlling an epidemic
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2020
We propose a flexible model of infectious dynamics with a single endogenous state variable and economic choices. We characterize equilibrium, optimal outcomes, static and dynamic externalities, and prove the following: (i) A lockdown generically is followed by policies to stimulate activity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388160
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Measuring the economic risk of COVID-19
Noy, Ilan; Nguyen Doan; Ferrarini, Benno; Park, Donghyun - 2020
, vulnerability, and resilience of the local economy to the shock of the epidemic. Using a battery of proxies for these four concepts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231556
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The economic impacts of a pandemic : what happened after SARS in 2003?
Nguyen Doan; Nguyen Phuc Canh; Noy, Ilan; Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2020
This study quantifies the economic impacts of SARS on the four affected Asian economies and the two most affected Chinese regions using synthetic control methods with macroeconomic and remote-sensing nightlight data. For the four affected economies (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore), we...
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