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We develop hypothetical policy scenarios in this part of the paper which are simulated using a product-by-industry economic-ecological model to investigate their impacts on water and other ecological commodities. Results are expected to contribute to the establishment of alternative policy...
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This paper uses a fully nonparametric approach to estimate efficiency measures for primary care units incorporating the effect of (exogenous) environmental factors. This methodology allows us to account for different types of variables (continuous and discrete) describing the main...
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avoid civil war. Members of the opposition are heterogeneous in income and ideology, and heterogeneity generates … increases continuously with the number of opposition group members who agree to accept it. When the within-group heterogeneity …
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and indefinitely satisfied (sustainable heterogeneity). With appropriate government interventions, such a path is always …
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(sustainable heterogeneity). With appropriate government interventions, such a path is always achievable and is uniquely socially …
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This article proposes empirical tools to account for the role of heterogeneities in the labour matching process, and shows an application to the Andalusian labour market which relies on individual microdata. Firstly, by considering that the labour market is segmented when workers of a specific...
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tradable. Such heterogeneity may violate the Taylor principle, which implies that aggressive monetary policy is desirable to … consideration of the heterogeneity. …
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We analyse how consumer heterogeneity affects buying behaviour and the monopoly pricing of a network good and its usage …. Under perfect information, sufficiently high heterogeneity yields a unique equilibrium, and the unit price is increasing in … heterogeneity. Under incomplete information, we have a global game. The unit price is independent of heterogeneity, and it tends to …
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Discussion of "The Pricing Behavior of Firms in the Euro Area: New Survey Evidence" by S. Fabiani, M. Druant, I. Hernando, C. Kwapil, B. Landau, C. Loupias, F. Martins, T. Mathä, R. Sabbatini, H. Stahl, and A. Stockman (2004); Presented at the Inflation Persistence Network (IPN) Conference on...
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This paper uses panel data from Japan to decompose productivity growth measured by the growth of output per labor unit into three components of efficiency improvement, capital accumulation and technological progress. It then examines their determinants through a dynamic panel model. In...
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