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Signalling rivalry and quality uncertainty in a duopoly

Bester, Helmut; Demuth, Juri - 2011

observed by the incumbent and some fraction of informed consumers. This leads to price signalling rivalry between the …

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The effects of natural disasters and weather variations on international trade : a review of the empirical literature

Osberghaus, Daniel - 2019

This review summarizes the empirical literature on the effects of natural disasters and weather variations on international trade flows. A first result is that the body of literature is actually not as small as previously suggested. In total, I summarize 19 studies of 18 independent research...

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Agribusiness trade between Brazil and China : pillars and opportunities

Nonnenberg, Marcelo José Braga; Lima, Uallace Moreira; … - 2021

In this paper, we discuss the agricultural trade between Brazil and China. We select a set of key commodities and debate whether there are obstacles or opportunities to increase trade between the two economies. Following an institutional and historical analysis, we provide a statistical...

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Price indices for information and communication technology industries : an application to the German PC market

Moch, Dietmar - 2001

indices that correctly reflect the true price movements of IT products. This paper assesses the differences between … traditional and quality adjusted indices by providing results for PC hardware. Transaction price data for the period from 1985 to … 1994 are used to construct price indices for personal computers in Germany. The use of hedonic methods allows to correct …

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International trade and the transmission of temperature shocks

Osberghaus, Daniel; Schenker, Oliver - 2022

We examine how the adverse impacts of weather shocks are distributed through the trade network. Exploiting a rich, theoretically derived, fixed effects structure, we find significant negative short-run effects of high temperature on exports. A month with an average temperature above 30 °C...

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The impact of price frames on consumer decision making : experimental evidence

Baake, Pio; Huck, Steffen - 2013

We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders with market power on both the supply and demand side. Crops are stochastic and exporting countries can impose export tariffs to protect domestic food prices. Our first result is that export...

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