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This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in … emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries … and their high-income trade partners between 1995 and 2013. We exploit the implied reduction in agricultural tariffs over …
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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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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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This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...
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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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that persistence is a highly significant determinant of demand for private health insurance and also that it reduces the …
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restructuring of higher education currently underway, by looking at its implications on the demand for academic programs. It … quantification of the demand for each academic program is facilitated by the rules of access to higher education, in a nation … principles were subject to higher demand than comparable programs that did not restructure, as if Bologna were understood as a …
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