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This paper aims to estimate the price and income elasticities of the demand for essential commodities in Cote d …), we analyse price effects on the demand for groups of commodities by exploiting a relationship between unit values and …
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general trend towards increased employment flexibility. Yet to this day, it remains an open question what drives the demand …
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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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through two channels: the direct impact on the demand for healthcare and that due to selection into VHI. We find evidence of …
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A rise in population caused by increased immigration is sometimes accompanied by concerns that the increase in population puts additional or differential pressure on welfare services which might affect the net fiscal contribution of immigrants. The UK and Germany have experienced significant...
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The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand …
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In Brazil, wives do most of the household work. About sixty percent of them also work outside the household, working a total of about 10 hours more per week than men. Because of this unequal distribution of household work, husbands and wives might have different priorities regarding the purchase...
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We investigate how, in temporary economic hardship, agents change their consumption of health services, and how this depends on whether the service is universally free-of-charge visits to GP's or privately co-financed dental care. We find that own expenditures for dental care decrease. The...
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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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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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