This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health …

predictions of economic theory, our estimated housing shortage is uniformly low in areas with low regulation but varies in areas …

Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural … and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad ….S. immigrant workers and workers in their 42 home countries. The average price equivalent of migration barriers in this setting …

the minimum wage and to the micro patterns of price stickiness. For that purpose, we use a unique dataset of individual … price quotes collected to calculate the Consumer Price Index in France and we estimate a price rigidity model based on a … through to retail prices. -- Price stickiness ; minimum wage ; inflation ; restaurant prices …

the degree of price rigidity that is inherent to the price setting mechanism (intrinsic) and that which is due to the … price's driving variables (extrinsic). Using two data sets consisting of a large fraction of the price quotes used to … compute the Belgian and French CPI, we are able to assess the role of intrinsic and extrinsic price stickiness in explaining …

provenance of the artwork, omitted variables in most previous studies, seem to be more important determinants of the sale price …) there is strong evidence in our data for the declining price anomaly, or "afternoon effect". -- Art auctions ; masterpiece … effect ; declining price anomaly ; Latin American art …