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This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health …
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at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price …
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This paper empirically examines the degree of persistence in four precious metal prices (i.e., gold, palladium, platinum, and silver) during the last four U.S. recessions. Unit root tests and fractional integration techniques suggest that gold still is the most prominent safe haven asset within...
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Pay-what-you-want schemes can be a useful tool to finance high quality and independent news media without restricting readership, therefore guaranteeing maximum diffusion. We conduct a field experiment with the Italian information site lavoce.info to explore how to structure a campaign in a way...
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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 …
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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 …
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this issue by estimating crime-price elasticities from detailed data on criminal incidents in London between 2002 and 2012 … incidents and find evidence of significant positive price elasticities. We then study a particular group of crimes that have …
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The consequences of tobacco control policies for individual welfare are difficult to assess. We therefore evaluate the impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions between 1990 and 2011. We exploit the staggered...
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analyze three therapeutic classes with different treatment durations and show that the reform led to substantial price … decreases for our lifelong treatment and to less substantial price reductions for our medium duration treatment while we do not …
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