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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...

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Welfare and Distributional Implications of Shale Gas

Hausman, Catherine - 2015

, we provide the first estimates of broad-scale welfare and distributional implications of this supply boom. We provide new … estimates of supply and demand elasticities, which we use to estimate the drop in natural gas prices that is attributable to the … supply expansion. We calculate large, positive welfare impacts for four broad sectors of gas consumption (residential …

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The Effect of House Prices on Household Borrowing : A New Approach

Cloyne, James - 2017

We investigate the effect of house prices on household borrowing using administrative mortgage data from the UK and a new empirical approach. The data contain household-level information on house prices and borrowing in a panel of homeowners, who refinance at regular and quasi-exogenous...

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Prices and Promotions in U.S. Retail Markets : Evidence from Big Data

Hitsch, Günter J. - 2019

We document the degree of price dispersion and the similarities as well as differences in pricing and promotion strategies across stores in the U.S. retail (grocery) industry. Our analysis is based on “big data” that allow us to draw general conclusions based on the prices for close to...

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What U.S. Data Should Be Used to Measure the Price Elasticity of Demand for Alcohol?

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2016

This paper examines how estimates of the price elasticity of demand for beer vary with the choice of alcohol price series examined. Our most important finding is that the commonly used ACCRA price data are unlikely to reliably indicate alcohol demand elasticities--estimates obtained from this...

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The Production Relocation and Price Effects of U.S. Trade Policy : The Case of Washing Machines

Flaaen, Aaron - 2019

We analyze several rounds of U.S. import restrictions against washing machines. Using retail price data, we estimate the price effect of these import restrictions by comparing the price changes of washers with those of other appliances. We find that in response to the 2018 tariffs on nearly all...

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Corporate Demand for Insurance : an Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Market for Catastrophe and Non-Catastrophe Risks

Michel-Kerjan, Erwann - 2011

combine demand and supply data and apply a simultaneous-equation approach to address the problem of endogenous premium …

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Corporate Demand for Insurance : New Evidence from the U.S. Terrorism and Property Markets

Michel-Kerjan, Erwann - 2013

Since the passage of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, corporate terrorism insurance is sold as a separate policy from commercial property coverage. In this paper, we determine whether companies differ in their demand for property and terrorism insurance. Using a unique dataset of...

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Gender Differences in Covid-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior : Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries

Galasso, Vincenzo - 2020

Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...

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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2015

Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last 4 decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching...

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