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(QHFT) model, we classify export goods (at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation) by quality and price competition. We find … a high proportions of quality-competition goods for the major EU countries and lower proportions for Canada, Australia … and China. However, the overlap of these quality-competition goods is not large, which suggests that characteristics of …
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Incomplete product availability is an important feature of many markets; ignoring changes in availability may bias demand estimates. We study a new dataset from a wireless inventory system installed on 54 vending machines to track product availability every four hours. The data allow us to...
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Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) have reinvigorated an old literature on the link between home bias in the goods market and … home bias in the asset market by arguing that trade costs in the goods market can account for the observed portfolio home … the implied home bias are close to zero, casting significant doubt on a meaningful link between home bias in the goods and …
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We examine a generalized version of Flam and Helpmanacirc;euro;TMs (1987) model of vertical differentiation that maps cross-country differences in income distributions to variations in import variety and price distributions. The theoretical predictions are examined and confirmed using micro data...
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We consider assets when individuals were last observed prior to death in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and trace assets backwards to the age when these individuals were first observed. For most individuals, assets in the last year observed (LYO) were very similar to assets in the first...
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goods as incentives, and estimates respondents' willingness to support the oldest food bank in the U.S …
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This paper examines the question whether adjudication can be viewed as a private good, i.e., one whose optimal level will be generated in a free market. Part I focuses on private courts, noting their limitations as institutions for dispute resolution and rule creation but also stressing the...
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preferences for local public goods, product markets may provide an analogous incentive to sort into a community whose consumers … tend to share his preferences in private goods. Using zip code level data on chain restaurants and restaurants overall …
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We study the impact on the skill premium of increases in the quality of goods consumed by households (“trading up …”). Our empirical work shows that high- quality goods are more intensive in skilled labor than low-quality goods and that … household spending on high-quality goods rises with income. We propose a model consistent with these facts. This model accounts …
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. We characterize a class of environments in which the tax on labor goes to zero in the long run, while the tax on capital …
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