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National Food Authority's (NFA) twin mandate of price stabilization and food security has cost the government billions of pesos in losses over the past few decades. As such, there is a need to reexamine the NFA to determine whether the benefits gained from its continued operation justifies the...
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The paper develops a simple three-sector model of a developing country with nominal wage rigidity, in which one sector is thought of as the primary sector and the other two are sectors in which the country can diversify. The paper then analyzes the relationship between the market structure of...
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The paper presents the basics of a new and flexible approach to statistically modelling the activities of multi-sectoral economies (Tran Van Hoa, 1992) and applies it to study investment in five major East Asian countries (ie, China, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and Thailand) during the period...
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) of Hungarian and Romanian consumers following food price changes as a result of accession to the European Union (EU) in … basket of 16 products. The results show that real food prices have changed with some going up and others falling. However …, overall both Hungary and Romania have experienced a rise in real food prices by 9 per cent and 20 per cent, respectively. The …
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This study examines Tennessee and Pennsylvania consumers market participation for environmentally certified hardwood … the effects of scope of certification and demographics on premium amounts, and builds profiles of consumers who are …, young, female and low-income consumers had consistently positive influence on willingness to pay. Consumers who indicated …
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affect consumer prices, and (iii) international trade is disregarded. Results in this paper indicate that these limitations …
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This paper proposes a general framework for analyzing commodity tax competition under destination and origin principles, based on three possible tax spillovers, the consumer price spillover, the producer price/terms of trade spillover, and rent spillovers. A model is presented which can be...
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