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The Influence of Hidden Researcher Decisions in Applied Microeconomics
Huntington-Klein, Nick - 2020
Researchers make hundreds of decisions about data collection, preparation, and analysis in their research. We use a many-analysts approach to measure the extent and impact of these decisions. Two published causal empirical results are replicated by seven replicators each. We find large...
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The Price of Warm Glow
Lilley, Andrew - 2013
allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a … overall charitable donations. We discuss the implications of our experimental results for both theory and policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080136
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Competing with Asking Prices
Lester, Benjamin R. - 2013
In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller is willing to … asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the seller receives no better offers. Despite their prevalence in a … environment with a few simple, realistic ingredients and demonstrate that using an asking price is optimal: it is the pricing …
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The Price of Polarization : Estimating Task Prices Under Routine-Biased Technical Change
Böhm, Michael J. - 2017
The debate about the impact of routine-biased technical change on wages revolves around the question whether occupational or overall wage distributions polarized. This paper instead argues that routine task prices should decline compared to abstract and manual task prices. I propose a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940837
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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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Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices : Evidence from a Reference Price Reform in Denmark
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2013
domestic products) reference price system.We find that while our estimated consumer compensating variation is small, the reform …
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Smoking Bans, Cigarette Prices and Life Satisfaction
Odermatt, Reto - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087409
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The Effect of Changes in Alcohol Tax Differentials on Alcohol Consumption
Gehrsitz, Markus - 2020
We show that tax-induced increases in alcohol prices can lead to substantial substitution and avoidance behavior that limits reductions in alcohol consumption. Causal estimates are derived from a natural experiment in Illinois where spirits and wine taxes were raised sharply and unexpectedly in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835244
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764170
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Paintings and Numbers : An Econometric Investigation of Sales Rates, Prices and Returns in Latin American Art Auctions
Campos, Nauro F. - 2020
provenance of the artwork, omitted variables in most previous studies, seem to be more important determinants of the sale price …;), although (4) there is strong evidence in our data for the declining price anomaly, or quot;afternoon effect.quot …
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