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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 …
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Voluntary public unemployment systems are limited to a handful of countries, including Finland, Sweden, and, more … substantially, Denmark. A voluntary system has the positive feature of other user-cost schemes, potentially efficient targeting of …
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spread of COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic: While Denmark, Finland and Norway imposed strict measures (‘lockdowns …
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equation on data for aggregate manufacturing wages in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden from the mid 1960s to the mid 1990s. …
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Following Turkey's application for EU membership in 1987, a Customs Union (CU) between Turkey and the EU, mainly covering trade in manufacturing goods and processed agricultural products, came into effect in 1995. In addition to a large agricultural sector, Turkey also specializes in the...
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How much and over what horizon do households adjust their consumption in response to stock market wealth shocks? We address these questions using granular data on spending and stock portfolios from a large bank and exploiting lottery-like variation in gains across investors with similar...
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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 …
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We use two approaches to examine the macroeconomic consequences of disruptions in global food commodity markets. First …) in a standard vector autoregression (VAR) model, and we estimate the dynamic effects of global food commodity supply … shocks on the US economy. As an alternative, we also estimate the consequences of thirteen narratively identified global food …
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taxation. This paper examines the empirical validity of this claim using consumption data from Finland. The data have extensive …
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This paper examines the effects of health-oriented food tax reforms on the distribution of tax payments, food demand … and health outcomes. Unlike earlier work, we also take into account the uncertainty related to both demand estimation and … unhealthy food. -- sin taxes ; food taxation ; tax incidence ; commodity demand ; obesity ; diabetes ; coronary heart disease …
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