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Effects of Product Availability : Experimental Evidence

Conlon, Christopher T. - 2010

Product availability impacts many industries such as transportation, events, and retail, yet little empirical evidence documents the importance of stocking decisions for firm profits, vertical relationships, or consumers. We conduct several experiments, exogenously removing top-selling products...

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How Do Gasoline Prices Affect Fleet Fuel Economy?

Li, Shanjun - 2010

Exploiting a rich data set of passenger vehicle registrations in twenty U.S. metropolitan statistical areas from 1997 to 2005, we examine the effects of gasoline prices on the automotive fleet's composition. We find that high gasoline prices affect fleet fuel economy through two channels: (1)...

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Quality Competition Versus Price Competition Goods : An Empirical Classification

Baldwin, Richard - 2010

(QHFT) model, we classify export goods (at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation) by quality and price competition. We find …

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The Effect of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Prices and Utilization

Duggan, Mark - 2010

region. This paper evaluates the effect of this program on the price and utilization of pharmaceutical treatments … potentially negotiate price discounts through their ability to influence the market share of specific treatments. Using data on … the average price and increased the total utilization of prescription drugs by Medicare recipients. Our results further …

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Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia

Ashraf, Nava - 2010

The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health products in the developing world rests, in part, on whether higher prices can increase use, either by targeting distribution to high-use households (a screening effect), or by stimulating use psychologically through a sunk-cost...

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Zeros, Quality and Space : Trade Theory and Trade Evidence

Baldwin, Richard E. - 2010

Bilateral, product-level data exhibit a number of strong patterns that can be used to evaluate international trade theories, notably the spatial incidence of quot;export zerosquot; (correlated with distance and importer size), and of export unit values (positively related to distance). We show...

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Why Do Private Acquirers Pay so Little Compared to Public Acquirers?

Bargeron, Leonce - 2010

We find that the announcement gain to target shareholders from acquisitions is significantly lower if a private firm instead of a public firm makes the acquisition. Non-operating firms like private equity funds make the majority of private bidder acquisitions. On average, target shareholders...

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Price Impacts of Deals and Predictability of the Exchange Rate Movements

Ito, Takatoshi - 2010

This paper examines the price impact and the predictability of the exchange rate movement using the transaction data …, the contemporaneous impact of order flows on the quote and deal prices are analyzed. Second, the price predictability is … interval. The t-statistics become larger as the prediction window becomes shorter. Price impacts of deals at one side of the …

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Explaining Import Variety and Quality : The Role of the Income Distribution

Choi, Yo Chul - 2010

cross-country differences in income distributions to variations in import variety and price distributions. The theoretical … import price distributions. Similarly, the importers whose income distributions look more like the world buy from more … exporters and have import price distributions that look more like the world …

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Youth Smoking, Cigarette Prices, and Anti-Smoking Sentiment

DeCicca, Philip - 2010

controlling for differences in state anti-smoking sentiment, the price of cigarettes has a weak and statistically insignificant … initiation that include state fixed effects. However, there is evidence of price-responsiveness in the conditional cigarette …

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