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We study the impact of corporate taxes on barcode-level product prices using linked survey and administrative data. Our ….17. The effects are larger for lower-price items and products purchased by low-income households and weaker for high …
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the deviations from relative PPP. If the expected discounted cost of last minute delivery is higher than pre-buying, one … volatility are high, few imports are pre-bought, the price of imports is determined by the realized real exchange rate, and a … purchased in the spot market, the price of imports is determined by the realized real exchange rate, and the relative PPP holds …
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predicted increase in concentration lead to price increases of two percent, but at the mean this was offset by a nearly equal … and opposite efficiency effect …
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for innovation by establishing finite periods of market exclusivity yet simultaneously providing access to lower cost … reflects increases in both the share of the total market potentially accessible by generics, and the generic efficiency rate … - the latter frequently approaching 100%. Whereas in 1994, the generic price index fell from 100 to 80 in the 12 months …
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products with higher market shares conditional on price. The estimated qualities reveal substantial heterogeneity in product … price and quantity information to estimate the quality of products exported to the U.S. Higher quality is assigned to …
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(QHFT) model, we classify export goods (at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation) by quality and price competition. We find …
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a subset of firms effectively experiences a change in its marginal cost. This paper considers the suspension, and … subsequent reinstatement, of the 5% gasoline sales tax in Illinois and Indiana following a temporary price spike in the spring of …
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to explain the size of the declines in output and real wages that follow increases in the price of oil. Plausibly …
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We study industries where the price that a firm sets serves as an investment into lower cost or higher demand. We …
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prices to retail pharmacies, plausibly because uncertain quality leads to competition on brand rather than price. Tendered …
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