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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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of the banana plants because of sufficiently low elasticity of demand. Using the cyclones of 2006 and 2011 as exogenous … events, we identify the elasticity of demand for bananas in Australia to be around -0.5. We indeed find limited evidence for … have hit and re-planted banana plants have become productive. Combining the elasticity estimates with information on …
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of demand composition and demand size with limited information on costs. We show how pharmacists in Italy selectively …
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evidence that the income elasticity of French residential electricity demand is 0.22, averaged over our four cohorts of …This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life …
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Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research …
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improved Australian estimates of labour supply elasticities and child care demand elasticities with respect to gross child care … child care demand. The new estimates are in line with international findings, and their robustness is supported by a …
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elasticity. Heterogeneity due to the theoretical and empirical specification of the labor demand model, different datasets used … evidence for the presence of publication selection bias, as estimates of the own-wage elasticity of labor demand are upwardly …Firms' labor demand responses to wage changes are of key interest in empirical research and policy analysis. However …
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Estimates of Frisch labor-supply elasticities are biased in the presence of borrowing constraints. We show that this estimation bias is less pronounced for secondary than for primary earners. The reason is that, in households with two earners and joint borrowing constraints, wage-rate...
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-2020, we find for manufacturing establishments a gas price elasticity of labor demand of -0.02, likely reflecting a scale …
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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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