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There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in the last two decades, triggered by the deployment of natural gas networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of this development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our...
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This paper proposes a simple two-step estimation method (Climate Adaptive Response Estimation - CARE) to estimate … residential electricity and natural gas demand for the world's sixth largest economy - California. The advantage of the proposed …-of-the-art climate models, we simulate future demand by letting households vary consumption along the intensive and extensive margins. We …
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The crowding-out coefficient is the ratio of the reduction in privately-issued bonds to the increase in government bonds that are issued to finance a tax cut. If (1) Ricardian equivalence holds, and (2) households do not simultaneously borrow risklessly and have positive gross positions in other...
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are not. We then describe the patterns found in the data and argue that firm and market specific demand shocks help …
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estimate demand for other products using data from Amazon or other online retailers where quantities are not observed, but …
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This paper proposes a theory of corporate liquidity demand and provides new evidence on corporate cash policies. Firms …
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We study the dynamics of residential electricity demand by exploiting a natural experiment that produced large and long … that the price elasticity of demand grows from –0:09 in the first six months to –0:27 two years later. We also estimate a …
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In recent years, numerous cities in the U.S. have enacted taxes on beverages to promote health and raise revenue. This paper examines the impact of Philadelphia's beverage tax, enacted in 2017, on the prices and availability of taxed beverages and untaxed beverages that may be substitutes for...
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Discrete choice demand models are widely used for counterfactual policy simulations, yet their out … choice models of school demand. In 2013, Boston Public Schools considered several new choice plans that differ in where …, suggesting that the choice models are indeed “structural.” Our findings show that structural demand models can effectively …
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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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