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Public acceptability of population-level interventions to reduce alcohol consumption: A discrete choice experiment

Pechey, Rachel; Burge, Peter; Mentzakis, Emmanouil; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 113 (2014) C, pp. 104-109

discrete choice experiment provides a novel investigation of the acceptability of different interventions to reduce alcohol … consumption and the effect of information on expected effectiveness, using a UK general population sample of 1202 adults. Policy … options included high, medium and low intensity versions of: Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for alcohol; reducing numbers of …

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More than joints : multi-substance use, choice limitations, and policy implications

Sovinsky, Michelle; Jacobi, Liana; Allocca, Alessandra; … - 2023

, and persistence in use. We focus on a young person’s choice to consume marijuana, alcohol or cigarettes (and possible … joint consumption and access to obtain correct price sensitivity estimates. Post-legalization, youth marijuana use would …

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Personal bankruptcy law, debt portfolios, and entrepreneurship

Mankart, Jochen; Rodano, Giacomo - 2015

Every year 400,000 entrepreneurs fail and 60,000 file for personal bankruptcy. The option to declare bankruptcy provides entrepreneurs with insurance against the financial consequences of business failures. However, it comes at the cost of worsened credit market conditions. In this paper, we...

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Mean field games with singular controls

Fu, Guanxing; Horst, Ulrich - 2017

This paper establishes the existence of relaxed solutions to mean eld games (MFGs for short) with singular controls. As a by-product, we obtain an existence of relaxed solutions results for McKean-Vlasov stochastic singular control problems. Finally, we prove approximations of solutions results...

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Demographics and the decline in firm entry : lessons from a life-cycle model

Röhe, Oke; Stähler, Nikolai - 2020

Since the mid-1970s, firm entry rates in the United States have declined significantly. This also holds for other OECD countries over the past years. At the same time, these economies experienced a gradual process of population aging. Applying a tractable life-cycle model with endogenous firm...

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Monetary policy rules under bounded rationality

Dobrew, Michael; Gerke, Rafael; Kienzler, Daniel; … - 2023

We study the welfare performance of various simple monetary policy rules under bounded rationality (BR) along the lines of Gabaix (2020) in a New Keynesian model with sticky wages and an effective lower bound (ELB) on interest rates. Policy strategies with a strong history dependence lose their...