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Quality and Price Setting of High-Tech Goods

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, Oleksandr; Vu, Nam - 2021

This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using … thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of … sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and level of seller stability, are important factors for explaining price …

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Effects of E-Commerce on Local Labor Markets

Bauer, Anahid; Fernández Guerrico, Sofía - 2023

-commerce price advantage stemming from the enactment of the Amazon Tax-state-level legislation that mandates state sales taxes …

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Does the Internet Increase the Job Finding Rate? Evidence from a Period of Internet Expansion

Denzer, Manuel - 2018

We examine the impact of household access to the internet on job finding rates in Germany during a period (2006-2009) in which internet access increased rapidly, and job-seekers increased their use of the internet as a search tool. During this period, household access to the internet was almost...

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Precious Metal Prices : A Tale of Four U.S. Recessions

Agnese, Pablo; Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2023

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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Restaurant Prices and the Minimum Wage

Fougère, Denis - 2009

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 theConsumer Price Index in France and we estimate a price rigidity model based on a …

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Competition Reform and Household Welfare : A Microsimulation Analysis of the Telecommunication Sector in Ethiopia

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021

the market share of the state-owned monopoly to 45 percent, the model predicts a 25.3 percent reduction in the price of …

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Survey of Models on Demand, Customer Base-Line and Demand Response and Their Relationships in the Power Market

Heshmati, Almas - 2012

The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...

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Market Design for Trading Commoditized Renewable Energy

Heshmati, Almas - 2014

Information and communication technology plays an important role in achieving a higher level of energy efficiency. In particular, energy efficiency can be achieved by integrating information technology into electricity networks to enable the interaction between suppliers and customers (smart...

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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity : The Role of Allocation and Selection

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2009

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...

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The Firm Size Distribution Across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology

Poschke, Markus - 2014

How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? Using two datasets covering more than 30 countries, this paper documents that several features of the firm size distribution are strongly associated with income per capita: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small...

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