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Impact of European food safety border inspections on agri-food exports : evidence from Chinese firms
Beestermöller, Matthias; Disdier, Anne-Célia; … - 2016
The cost of complying with a sanitary standard is certain. However, such regulatory measure is a source of uncertainty for exporting firms in relation to border rejections. Shipments may fail to pass inspections and may be refused entry into the importing country. We examine how the risk of...
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Measuring the integration of staple food markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : heterogeneous infrastructure and cross border trade in the East African community
Ihle, Rico; Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan von; Zorya, Sergiy I. - 2011
This analysis employs cointegration methods and semiparametric regression in order to assess the integration of maize markets and the factors determining national and cross-national transmission of price signals in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices...
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The dead-anyway effect revis(it)ed
Breyer, Friedrich; Felder, Stefan - 2002
In the expected-utility theory of the monetary value of a statistical life, the so-called dead-anyway effect discovered by Pratt and Zeckhauser (1996) asserts that an individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for small reductions in mortality risk increases with the initial level of risk. Their...
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Skilled labour migration and firm performance : evidence from English hospitals and brexit
Fischer, Kai - 2023
withdrawal after the Brexit referendum on the performance of English hospitals. Exploiting variation in the reliance on EU …
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The value of national defense : assessing public preferences for defense policy options
Qari, Salmai; Börger, Tobias; Lohse, Tim; Meyerhoff, … - 2023
Defense spending accounts for a large share of the budget in many countries, but the value of the resulting public good - national defense - has so far escaped assessment. Much of the literature has instead considered indirect benefits of defense spending in terms of greater economic growth or...
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"Institutionalization aversion" and the willingness to pay for home health care
Costa-Font, Joan - 2017
We examine the presence of a systematic preference for independent living at old age which we refer as "institutionalization aversion" (IA). Given that IA is not observable from revealed preferences, we draw on a survey experiment to elicit individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid...
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Did COVID-19 cost Trump the election?
Lake, James; Nie, Jun - 2021
A common narrative is that COVID-19 cost Trump re-election. We do not find supporting evidence; if anything, the pandemic helped Trump. However, we find substantial evidence that voters abandoned Trump in counties with large increases in health insurance coverage since the Affordable Care Act,...
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Expecting Brexit
Dhingra, Swati; Sampson, Thomas - 2022
The Brexit vote precipitated the unravelling of the UK’s membership of the world’s deepest economic integration … agreement. This paper reviews evidence on the realized economic effects of Brexit. The 2016 Brexit referendum changed … and uncertainty shocks. Voting for Brexit had large negative effects on the UK economy between 2016 and 2019, leading to …
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The willingness to pay for mortality risk reductions : a comparison of the United States and Canada
Alberini, Anna; Krupnick, Alan J.; Cropper, Maureen L.; … - 2002
We present results for two contingent valuation surveys conducted in Hamilton, Canada and the US to elicit WTP for mortality risk reductions. We find similar Value of Statistical Life estimates across the two studies, ranging from USD 930,000 to USD 4.8 million (2000 US dollars). WTP increases...
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What you ask is what you get : willingness-to-pay for a QALY in Germany
Ahlert, Marlies; Breyer, Friedrich; Schwettmann, Lars - 2013 - This version: April 26, 2013
We report results of a survey of a representative sample of the German population in which respondents were asked in various scenarios for their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a gain of one quality-adjusted life year. While one version of the survey exactly copied the setting (online survey) and...
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