How large are the intra-national trade costs that separate consumers in remote locations of developing countries from … to estimate trade costs, we: (i) work exclusively with a sample of goods that are identified at the barcode-level (to … in our sample (to focus only on the pairs of locations that actually identify trade costs); and (iii) use estimates of …

emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these … technologies under uncertainty. Specifically, given two technologies, one with lower costs at present, but the other with greater …

conducted on a sample of more than 30,000 households. The findings suggest that the upfront investment costs are about twice the … broader societal benefits of energy efficiency investments, the costs still substantially outweigh the benefits; the average …

equivalent of the costs of the extra time stress is very large. While the departure of a child from the home reduces parents …

costs, however, do respond strongly to prices. To explain these facts, we reformulate Hotelling's (1931) classic model of … revenues net of costs and explains why production is typically constrained. It also rationalizes regional production peaks and …

We examine variation in local wage levels, housing costs, and commuting costs for 2071 areas covering the United States …

We develop and apply a procedure to flexibly estimate intra-national border barriers and intra-regional trade costs … is rather small. Bilateral distance imposes much larger inter-provincial trade costs. Contiguity between provinces … accounts for little. Intra-regional trade cost variation affects relative bilateral costs and trade flows, and alters …