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subsidies for poor households in two provinces of China and find no evidence that the subsidies improved nutrition. In fact, it …
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, fuel economy standards for automobiles, renewable portfolio standards, low carbon fuel standards, and—most recently—China … substantial gains could arise from shifting two programs, China’s new national carbon market (~60% gain) and the California Low …
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Subsidies to consumers may cause firms to charge higher prices, which offsets consumer benefits from subsidies. We study a subsidy program design that mitigates such price increases by making products' eligibility for a subsidy dependent on firms' commitment to price ceilings. To quantify the...
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, and economic transition paths of China, Japan, the U.S., and the EU. Each of these countries/regions is entering a period … of rapid and significant aging requiring major fiscal adjustments.In previous studies that excluded China we predicted …, reducing real wages per unit of human capital. Adding China to the model dramatically alters this prediction. Even though China …
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The latest World Bank estimates of real GDP per capita for China are significantly lower than previous ones. We review … than an output-weighted measure of GDP. Taking all these together, we estimate that real per-capita GDP in China was 50 …
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Concerns about the quality of China's official GDP statistics have been a perennial question in understanding its …
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In 2009 and 2010, China undertook a 4 trillion Yuan fiscal stimulus, roughly equivalent to 12 percent of annual GDP …
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In this survey chapter on pricing and reimbursement in U.S. pharmaceutical markets, we first provide background information on important federal legislation, institutional details regarding distribution channel logistics, definitions of alternative price measures, related historical...
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We analyze consumer demand and model the effect of pricing regulation under imperfect competition using data from the Massachusetts health insurance exchange. We identify consumer demand using coarse insurer pricing strategies. There is substantial heterogeneity in preferences by consumer type,...
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This paper uses national data for the period 1960 to 2000 to estimate an aggregate private consumer demand for pharmaceuticals in the U.S. The estimated demand curve is then used to simulate the value of consumer surplus gains from a drug price control regime that holds drug price increases to...
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