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Prices and Coupons for Breakfast Cereals
Nevo, Aviv - 1999
This paper explores the relationship between shelf prices and manufacturers' coupons for 25 ready-to-eat breakfast cereals. Contrary to the predictions of static monopoly price discrimination, we find the shelf prices for a particular brand in a particular city are generally lower during periods...
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Grain Today, Gain Tomorrow : Evidence from a Storage Experiment with Savings Clubs in Kenya
Aggarwal, Shilpa - 2018
Many farmers in the developing world lack access to effective savings and storage devices. Such devices might be particularly valuable for farmers since income is received as a lump sum at harvest but expenditures are incurred throughout the year, and because grain prices are low at harvest but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453323
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Trade policy, income risk, and welfare
Krebs, Tom - 2005
"This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and uses the estimates of this empirical analysis to evaluate the welfare effect of trade reform. The analysis proceeds in three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522578
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Using Lotteries to Attract Deposits
Gertler, Paul J.; Higgins, Sean; Scott, Aisling; Seira, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
a randomized experiment across 110 bank branches throughout Mexico, a lottery incentive based on net monthly deposits …
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The Impact of Violence during the Mexican Revolution on Migration to the United States
Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Kosack, Edward; Ward, Zachary - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The number of individuals forcibly displaced by conflicts has been rising in the past few decades. However, we know little about the dynamics--magnitude, timing, and persistence--of conflict-induced migration in the short run. We use novel high-frequency data to estimate the dynamic migration...
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Exchange Rate Regimes, Capital Flows and Crisis Prevention
Edwards, Sebastian - 2001
In this paper I analyze, within the context of the new 'financial architecture,' the relationship between exchange rate regimes, capital flows and currency crises in emerging economies. The paper draws on lessons learned during the 1990s, and deals with some of the most important policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470189
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A Decade Lost and Found : Mexico and Chile in the 1980s
Bergoeing, Raphael - 2001
Chile and Mexico experienced severe economic crises in the early 1980s. This paper analyzes four possible explanations … for why Chile recovered much faster than did Mexico. Comparing data from the two countries allows us to rule out a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470198
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Credit, Prices, and Crashes : Business Cycles with a Sudden Stop
Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2001
The 1990s emerging-markets crises were characterized by sudden reversals in inflows of foreign capital followed by unusually large declines in current account deficits, private expenditures, production, and prices of nontradable goods relative to tradables. This paper shows that these Sudden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470386
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On the Fiscal Implications of Twin Crises
Burnside, Craig - 2001
use our model and the data to interpret the recent currency crises in Mexico and Korea. Our analysis suggests that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470447
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International Franchising : Evidence from US and Canadian Franchisors in Mexico
Lafontaine, Francine - 2001
only to describe the contracting practices of US and Canadian franchisors in Mexico but, most importantly, to compare them … agreements in Mexico compared to their home market. Our empirical results confirm hypotheses derived from the theories …, particularly with respect to the decision to operate in Mexico. But we also find some surprises - for example, the vast majority of …
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