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This paper weights the relative advantages of multiple factors that lead to the success of professional sports stadiums in major markets, though a discussion of the arguments for and against public subsidies towards these projects. Using a logit statistical model, the paper determines that the...
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A major area of concern for sociologists and economists who study poverty and inequality is the financial well being of low-income individuals as measured by their opportunities to participate in what is considered the "mainstream financial market." Scholars suggest that a myriad of factors,...
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This dissertation presents and estimates a model that examines the economic causes of intergenerational welfare … recipiency. Previous literature in this area has found that daughters of welfare recipients have a higher incidence of receiving … welfare than daughters of non-recipients. My dissertation measures the possible economic causes underlying this phenomenon by …
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and approximate welfare measures of prices changes caused by a tax-subsidycombination. The distributional characteristics … higher-income households. The overall welfare effect of a fat tax and thin subsidy combination is found to benegative … instruments in altering diets and improving health. However, little is known about the welfare impacts of fiscal food policies on …
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This paper focuses on the estimation of changes in economic welfare (real income) on different groups (income deciles … rise in food prices has resulted in a welfare loss for all income deciles, particularly for those in the lower income … economic welfare (real income) on different groups (income deciles) of Hungarian and Romanian consumers following food price …
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and welfare, we analyze the welfare from the agents economic that show the externalities negatives deriving from of the …
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the New Member States (NMS), and the consequent welfare implications. The study finds that EU enlargement has important … NMS gain from accession because of higher prices, whereas consumers in most NMS face a welfare loss. Incorporating … technology transfer into the accession increases the welfare gain of producers despite falling prices because of the larger …
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We review some of the most significant issues and results on the economic effects of genetically modified (GM) product innovation, with emphasis on the question of GM labeling and the need for costly segregation and identity preservation activities. The analysis is organized around an explicit...
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government of Japan (GOJ) tax revenue uncertain; the level of imports and stocks increased; and the timing of imports changed … structure that allows trade of quota. This collusion is welfare-improving since the safeguard induces more inefficiencies …
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Comparative advantage motivates large trade flows in feeder animals throughout the world. Trade creates externalities when animal diseases can spread beyond the purchasing farm. When growers can choose between open and closed production systems, Nash equilibrium will likely involve socially...
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