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across countries, we show that these expenditures explain the relative rise of concentration and market power in the US …
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In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within … their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market … advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and taste heterogeneity all matter for market outcomes, we find that a …
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The paper provides and empirical characterization of fiscal policy in the euro area and in a group of twenty-two OECD … economies over the period from 1970 until 2007. Using the cyclically-adjusted fiscal balance we document that policy in the euro … policies. However, the component of the budget due to automatic stabilizers reacts stronger in the euro-area countries than in …
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satisfaction grow in market size. We document this phenomenon across 246 US radio markets. By a mechanism that we term 'preference … externalities', an increase in the size of the market brings forth additional products valued by others with similar tastes. But who … possibly reduced) by the size of the white population. Consequently, small groups receive less variety from the market. Forces …
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Digital platforms like Uber can enhance market transparency and mitigate moral hazard via ratings of buyers and sellers …
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We consider nonparametric identification in models of differentiated products markets, using only market level … models widely used in applied work. We allow for product/market-specific unobservables, endogenous product characteristics (e …
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Recent empirical work finds a negative correlation between product market regulation and aggregate employment. We … examine the effect of product market regulations on hours worked in a benchmark aggregate model of time allocation. We find … that product market regulations affect time devoted to market work in effectively the same fashion as do taxes on labor …
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In this paper we provide a simple, credible method for assessing the effects of climate change on the quality of agricultural land and then apply this method using a rich set of data on the vineyards of the Mosel Valley in Germany. The basic idea is to use a simple model of solar radiation to...
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In recent years, some English critics have claimed that Damien Hirst and his fellow young British artists have made London the new center of the advanced art world. As Hirst reaches the age of 40, this paper uses auction results to measure the importance of the YBAs compared to their American...
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Backcasting upward bias in price index over long periods of time yields levels of real consumption two or four centuries ago that are implausibly low, raising the possibility that price index bias for important products may have been zero or even negative at some point in the past. This paper...
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