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Corporate Taxes and Retail Prices
Baker, Scott R.; Sun, Stephen Teng; Yannelis, Constantine - 2021
We study the impact of corporate taxes on barcode-level product prices using linked survey and administrative data. Our ….17. The effects are larger for lower-price items and products purchased by low-income households and weaker for high …
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Using the New Products Margin to Predict the Industry-Level Impact of Trade Reform
Kehoe, Timothy J. - 2013
ISIC) based on the pre-liberalization distribution of exports by product (5-digit SITC). Using the results of Kehoe and …
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Diverging Trends in National and Local Concentration
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2018
.Using U.S. NETS data, we present evidence that the positive trend observed in national product-market concentration between …
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Environmental Engel Curves
Levinson, Arik - 2015
Environmental Engel curves (EECs) plot the relationship between households' incomes and the pollution embodied in the goods and services they consume. They provide a basis for estimating the degree to which observed environmental improvements, which come in part from changing consumption...
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Fuel Tax Incidence and Supply Conditions
Marion, Justin G. - 2011
The incidence of taxes on consumers and producers plays a central role in evaluating energy tax policy, yet the literature testing the main predictions of the tax incidence model is sparse. In this paper, we examine the pass-through rate of state gasoline and diesel taxes to retail prices, and...
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Does Price Reveal Poor-Quality Drugs? Evidence from 17 Countries
Bate, Roger - 2011
but the signaling effect of price is far from complete, especially for non-innovator brands. The look of the pharmacy, as … are likely to suspect low quality from market price, non-innovator brand and the look of the pharmacy, but none of these …
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Sale Rates and Price Movements in Art Auctions
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011
paper examines the relationship between sale rates and price surprises over time in art auctions. Using data on contemporary … strong positive relationship of sale rates to unexpected aggregate price changes, which is reminiscent of a Phillips curve … that sale rates revert to "normal" very quickly following a price surprise. We estimate an empirical model to measure …
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Supply and Effects of Specialty Crop Insurance
Ligon, Ethan A. - 2011
The federal government has developed a large number of programs to insure various "specialty crops" over the last two decades; a given program is peculiar to a particular county and crop. This development has been particularly notable in California, because of its size and the diversity of crops...
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The Equity and Efficiency of Two-Part Tariffs in U.S. Natural Gas Markets
Borenstein, Severin - 2011
Residential natural gas customers in the United States face volumetric charges for natural gas that average about 30% more than marginal cost. The large markup on natural gas - which is used to cover the fixed infrastructure and operating costs of the local distribution companies - is widely...
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Why Does the Treasury Issue Tips? The Tips-Treasury Bond Puzzle
Fleckenstein, Matthias - 2010
We show that the price of a Treasury bond and an inflation-swapped TIPS issue exactly replicating the cash flows of the …
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