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The Role of Repugnance in Markets : How the Jared Fogle Scandal Affected Patronage of Subway

Cawley, John H.; Eddelbuettel, Julia; Cunningham, Scott; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Economics has long studied how consumers respond to the disclosure of information about firms. We study a case in which the disclosed information is unrelated to the product or firm leadership, but which could still potentially affect consumer patronage through the mechanism of repugnance, as...

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Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities : Evidence from Amsterdam

Almagro, Milena; Domínguez-Iino, Tomás - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper shows the endogeneity of amenities plays a crucial role in determining the welfare distribution of a city's residents. We quantify this mechanism by building a dynamic model of residential choice with heterogeneous households, where consumption amenities are the equilibrium outcome of...

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Climate Change through the Lens of Macroeconomic Modeling

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Gillingham, Kenneth; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

There is a rapidly advancing literature on the macroeconomics of climate change. This review focuses on developments in the construction and solution of structural integrated assessment models (IAMs), highlighting the marriage of state-of-the-art natural science with general equilibrium theory....

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The Economic Impacts of the Tobacco Settlement

Cutler, David M. - 2000

whether it was a move toward economic efficiency using data from Massachusetts. Medicaid spending will fall, but only a modest … amount ($0.1 billion). The efficiency issue turns mainly on the treatment of health benefits from reduced smoking induced by … the settlement. We conclude that the settlement was a move towards economic efficiency …

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Does Public Insurance Improve the Efficiency of Medical Care? Medicaid Expansions and Child Hospitalizations

Dafny, Leemore - 2000

One of the benefits commonly claimed for expanded public health insurance is improved efficiency of medical care …

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Market Provision of Public Goods : The Case of Broadcasting

Anderson, Simon P. - 2000

This paper studies the market provision of a specific type of public good: radio and television broadcasts. Its main focus is to explore the ability of the market to provide broadcasting efficiently in a world in which broadcasters earn revenues by selling time to advertisers and advertisements...

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An Efficiency Approach to the Evaluation of Policy Changes

Coate, Stephen - 1999

This paper describes an efficiency approach to the evaluation of policy changes. Rather than comparing the utility …

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Green Taxes and Administrative Costs : The Case of Carbon Taxation

Smulders, Sjak - 1999

This paper explores the trade-off between incentive effects and administrative costs associated with the implementation of various environmental tax instruments, with special reference to carbon taxes. In a simple model, we show under what conditions it is optimal to use input rather than...

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Efficiency Effects on the U.S. Economy from Wireless Taxation

Hausman, Jerry - 1999

This paper measures for the first time the economic efficiency effects of the taxation of wireless services, which are … thereby suppress demand for service, imposing an efficiency loss on the economy of $0.53 for every $1 currently raised in … taxes. Prospective taxes will impose an efficiency loss of $0.72-$1.14 per additional dollar of tax revenue raised …

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Characteristics of TQM : Evidence from the RIT/USA Today Quality Cup Competition

Rosett, Joshua G. - 1999

This paper reports the results of a field study examining the use of TQM at 15 firms. The sample is drawn from winners and finalists of the RIT/USA Today Quality Cup. The authors interviewed 75 employees (5 per firm) including 14 executives, 44 middle managers, and 17 front line workers. The...

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