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Host-Mnc Relations in Resource-Rich Countries
Chichilnisky-Heal, Natasha - 2015
We discuss the relationship between a resource-rich developing country and a multi-national corporation (MNC) that is developing its resources for the international market. We model the connections between transparency, permeability (defined as the amount of resource rent that leaves the...
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Resource Curse or Debt Overhang?
Manzano, Osmel E; Rigobon, Roberto - 2021
It has been widely believed that resource abundant economies grow less than other economies. In a very influential paper, Sachs and Warner (1997), point out that there is a negative relationship between resource abundance and growth. Two important econometric problems are present in the...
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A Dynamic Model of Price Discrimination and Inventory Management at the Fulton Fish Market
Graddy, Kathryn - 2015
We estimate a dynamic profit-maximization model of a fish wholesaler who can observe consumer characteristics, set … the key features observed in a set of high quality transaction-level data on fish sales collected at the Fulton fish …
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A Dynamic Model of Price Discrimination and Inventory Management at the Fulton Fish Market
Graddy, Kathryn; Hall, George J. - 2010
We estimate a dynamic profit-maximization model of a fish wholesaler who can observe consumer characteristics, set … the key features observed in a set of high quality transaction-level data on fish sales collected at the Fulton fish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046479
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Is Fish Brain Food or Brain Poison? Sea Surface Temperature, Methyl-Mercury and Child Cognitive Development
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Santos, Rafael J. - 2022
We exploit variation in the composition of local fish catches around the time of birth using administrative and census … the causal effects of early-life consumption of methylmercury (MeHg) and DHA, elements contained in fish, on cognitive … development. Using an IV strategy based on an equilibrium model of fish supply that exploits time-series variation in oceanic SST …
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Non-Parametric Demand Analysis with an Application to the Demand for Fish
Angrist, Joshua D.; Graddy, Kathryn; Imbens, Guido W. - 2022
estimates of average derivatives in a simultaneous equations model. These ideas are illustrated using data from the Fulton Fish … market in New York City to estimate an average elasticity of wholesale demand for fresh fish. The weighting function …
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Measuring Price Elasticities for Residential Water Demand with Limited Information
Klaiber, H. Allen - 2012
This paper exploits the seasonal and annual changes in marginal prices for water to estimate the price elasticity of … demand by residential households for water. It uses the changes in distributions of water using the census block group levels … in response to changes in marginal prices of water for matched months across years. This strategy reduces the interaction …
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Water Demand Under Alternative Price Structures
Olmstead, Sheila M. - 2010
We estimate the price elasticity of water demand with household-level data, structurally modeling the piecewise … water utility service areas …
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Designing Nonlinear Price Schedules for Urban Water Utilities to Balance Revenue and Conservation Goals
Wolak, Frank - 2016
This paper formulates and estimates a household-level, billing-cycle water demand model under increasing block prices … household demographics in the utility's service territory to recover the impact of these factors on water demand. An index of … models are used to compute the distribution of utility-level water demand and revenues for any possible price schedule …
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Environmental Externalities and Free-Riding in the Household
Jack, B. Kelsey - 2018
Water use and electricity use, which generate negative environmental externalities, are susceptible to a second … other household members. If individual usage is imperfectly observed (as is typical for water and electricity) and family … argument and test its prediction that intrahousehold free-riding dampens price sensitivity. We do so in the context of water …
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