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migration of Medicare patients to separate the role of demand and supply factors. Our approach allows us to account for demand … in utilization is attributable to patient demand, with the remainder due to place-specific supply factors. Demand …
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-constrained consumers' access to financial markets make demand insensitive to interest rate fluctuations. The demand of credit … price sector influence aggregate demand and, for monetary policy to have its desired effect, the central bank has to …
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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 account for product availability when estimating demand, and provides a … availability even when availability is only observed periodically. We find significant differences in demand estimates, with the …
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This paper provides an empirical estimate of price' and risk' elasticities of demand for term life insurance for those …
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This paper presents new empirical evidence in support of the view that a significant fraction of total saving is motivated solely by the desire to leave bequests. Specifically, I find that Social Security annuity benefits significantly raise life insurance holdings and depress private annuity...
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We document how demand shocks in export markets lead French multi-product exporters to re-allocate the mix of products … sold in those destinations. In response to positive demand shocks, those French firms skew their export sales towards their … multi-product firms and derive the specific demand conditions needed to generate these product-mix reallocations. These …
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preference shifter. We then develop a tractable estimation procedure and apply it to Cambridge. Estimates suggest that while 82 …
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demand of new margin and clearing practices and regulations. We decompose collateral demand for both customers and dealers … impact on collateral demand of more widespread initial margin requirements, increased novation of CDS to central clearing …-specialized types, and client clearing. Among other results, we show that system-wide collateral demand is increased significantly by …
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US energy sector. The model's quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite …
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We study the determinants of comparative advantage in polluting industries. We combine data on environmental policy at the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental regulation have a comparative advantage in polluting...
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