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COVID-19 and the Demand for Online Food Shopping Services : Empirical Evidence from Taiwan

Chang, Hung-Hao - 2020

We investigate how the coronavirus pandemic affected the demand for online food shopping services using data from the … largest agri-food e-commerce platform in Taiwan. We find that an additional confirmed case of COVID-19 increased sales by 5 … most, which benefited small farms over agribusinesses. Online food shopping was highly responsive to COVID-19 media …

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Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation and Poverty

Anderson, Kym - 2015

This paper first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade in staple foods … during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes--reductions in import protection or increases in export restraints …, than are designed to provide social protection for the poor when international food prices spike. It also examines the …

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Keeping the Doctor Away : Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative Health Products

Meredith, Jennifer - 2013

Household investment in preventative health products is low in developing countries even though benefits from these products are very high. What interventions most effectively stimulate demand? In this paper, we experimentally estimate demand curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala,...

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Economic and Policy Uncertainty : Export Dynamics and the Value of Agreements

Carballo, Jeronimo - 2018

We examine the interaction of economic and policy uncertainty in a dynamic, heterogeneous firms model. Uncertainty about foreign income, trade protection and their interaction dampens export investment. This can be mitigated by trade agreements, which are particularly valuable in periods of...

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Dumping and Double Crossing : the (In)Effectiveness of Cost-Based Trade Policy Under Incomplete Information

Kolev, Dorbin R.; Prusa, Thomas J. - 2021

We argue that the rise of antidumping protection and the proliferation of voluntary export restraints are fundamentally inter-related. We show that both can be explained by a cost-based definition of dumping when the domestic government has incomplete information about the foreign firm's costs....

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What Do Voluntary Export Restraints Do?

Krishna, Kala - 2021

This paper has two aims. First, to examine alternative ways of modeling VERS in imperfectly competitive markets. This is important, since the. effects of VERS are sensitive to the models used. Second, to argue that the effects of VERS also depend on whether goods are complements or Substitutes....

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Estimating Patients' Preferences for Medical Devices : Does the Number of Profile in Choice Experiments Matter?

Bridges, John - 2011

Background: Most applications of choice-based conjoint analysis in health use choice tasks with only two profiles, while those in marketing routinely use three or more. This study reports on a randomized trial comparing paired with triplet profile choice formats focused on measuring patient...

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When Does Product Liability Risk Chill Innovation? Evidence from Medical Implants

Galasso, Alberto - 2018

Liability laws designed to compensate for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation. We examine this issue by exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by US suppliers of polymers used to manufacture medical implants. Difference-in-differences...

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Menstruation and Education in Nepal

Oster, Emily F. - 2010

This paper presents the results from a randomized evaluation that distributed menstrual cups (menstrual sanitary products) to adolescent girls in rural Nepal. Girls in the study were randomly allocated a menstrual cup for use during their monthly period and were followed for fifteen months to...

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What Do We Know About Competition and Quality in Health Care Markets?

Gaynor, Martin - 2010

The goal of this paper is to identify key issues concerning the nature of competition in health care markets and its impacts on quality and social welfare and to identify pertinent findings from the theoretical and empirical literature on this topic. The theoretical literature in economics on...

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