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We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom … Lifestyles (Natsal2, conducted in 2000-2001 and Natsal3, conducted in 2010-2012) to illustrate the changes in demand that have … taken place across the two waves. We do not find demand decreasing in our sample and find a shift in the composition of …
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demand for car insurance. - the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …
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A rise in population caused by increased immigration is sometimes accompanied by concerns that the increase in population puts additional or differential pressure on welfare services which might affect the net fiscal contribution of immigrants. The UK and Germany have experienced significant...
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We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in …
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We study price-setting behavior in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand … during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand shortages dominate in the short run. A reported … percentage points. These results imply a role for aggregate demand stabilization policy to buffer the economic consequences of …
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own-price elasticity of quantity demand for soda of between -1.0 and -1.3. These estimates ignore consumer responses on … prices to estimate unrestricted demand models that correct for both errors. The corrected own-price elasticity of quantity … demand is just -0.2 to -0.3, so tax-induced soda price increases might cut average weights by less than one pound, which is …
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In this paper the financial means of international (mostly Islamistic) terror organizations are analysed. First, some short remarks about the organization of international terror organizations are made. Second and in a much more detailed way a literature review is provided about the financing of...
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Most demand -- especially labor demand -- is derived from the demand for some other product. This note demonstrates … case of derived demand. -- derived demand ; indirect demand ; consumers's surplus ; economic rent …
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banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate on the question of whether an uncovered demand for microlending …
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-constrained consumers' access to financial markets make demand insensitive to interest rate fluctuations. The demand of credit … price sector influence aggregate demand and, for monetary policy to have its desired effect, the central bank has to …
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