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In the present study, we have taken advantage of the wealth of information provided by the French annual survey of market services to construct a panel sample of data on about 2300 large firms, from 1984 to 1987, in nine selected service industries (at the four digit level of the industrial...
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Previous research found that the initiation of Hospital Compare (HC) quality reporting had little impact on patient outcomes. However little is known about its impact on hospital prices, which may be significant since insurers are positioned to respond to quality information when engaging...
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the extent of producer heterogeneity in the output market by analyzing output price and price-marginal cost markups at the plant level for thirteen homogenous manufactured goods. It relies on micro data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures over the...
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Business cycles reflect changes over time in the amount of trade between individuals. In this paper we show that … incorporating explicitly intra-temporal gains from trade between individuals into a macroeconomic model can provide new insight into … "gains from trade" approach can easily explain why changes in perceptions about the future (including "news" about the future …
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wealth. We use a two factor general equilibrium model and assume credit markets are absent. We explore the effects of trade … that developed countries need to ensure access to education when liberalizing trade to ensure they reap the potential gains … from trade …
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execution and the risk is a result of price movements during a more gradual trading. The paper shows that the trade-off between …
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The paper derives a consistent accounting framework for the treatment of inventories when measuring the productivity of a distribution firm. The average purchase price of an inventory item during an accounting period must be distinguished from its average selling price and these two average...
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This study explores the interaction between trade and geography in shaping the Islamic economic doctrine. We build a … model where an unequal distribution of land quality in presence of trade opportunities conferred differential gains from … trade across regions, fostering predatory behavior by groups residing in the poorly endowed territories. We show that in …
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trader can walk away from a proposed trade when he learns the trading price. We show that when one trader's information is …
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This paper shows that how firms export (directly or indirectly via intermediaries) matters. We develop and estimate a dynamic discrete choice model that allows learning-by-exporting on the cost and demand side as well as sunk/fixed costs to differ by export mode. We find that demand and...
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