-2020, we find for manufacturing establishments a gas price elasticity of labor demand of -0.02, likely reflecting a scale …

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the …

-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near … historical ethnic borders in Sub-Saharan Africa. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate on the question of whether an uncovered demand for microlending …