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Total pollution emitted by U.S. manufacturers declined over the past 30 years by about 60 percent, even though real manufacturing output increased 70 percent. This improvement must result from a combination of two trends: (1) changes in production or abatement processes (quot;technologyquot;);...
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crops to estimate the effect of crop insurance on the output and prices of the insured crops.We find that the supply of and … benefit for consumers, even when it generates a large supply response …
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We compare risk sharing in response to demand and supply shocks in four types of currency unions: segmented markets; a … all domestic demand shocks (deleveraging, fiscal consolidation), while a capital market union is necessary to share supply … banking union and, in the presence of supply shocks, from a capital market union.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working …
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, we provide the first estimates of broad-scale welfare and distributional implications of this supply boom. We provide new … estimates of supply and demand elasticities, which we use to estimate the drop in natural gas prices that is attributable to the … supply expansion. We calculate large, positive welfare impacts for four broad sectors of gas consumption (residential …
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going to understand boom-bust housing cycles, we must incorporate housing supply. In this paper, we present a simple model … of housing bubbles that predicts that places with more elastic housing supply have fewer and shorter bubbles, with … exclusively experienced in cities where housing supply is more inelastic. More elastic places had slightly larger increases in …
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In public sector procurement, social welfare often depends on the time taken to complete the contract. A leading example is highway construction, where slow completion times inflict a negative externality on commuters. Recently, highway departments have introduced innovative contracting methods...
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