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exporters within narrow product categories. Three, US growth in both import variety and import price dispersion has occurred at …-country differences in income distributions to variation in import variety and price variation. The theoretical predictions are examined …
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Since the study of Ellerman and Decaux (1998) marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) have become one of the favorite instruments to analyze the impacts of the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and emission trading. This paper shows that the MACC in one country depends - via the link of world...
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and death-induced price changes. Using transactions from fine art auctions, we show that the empirically identified death … effects indeed conform to our theoretical predictions. We derive our results from hedonic art price regressions, making use of …
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In this paper we show that price equalization alone is not sufficient to determine the barriers to international trade …. There are many barrier combinations that deliver price equalization, but each combination implies a different volume of … goods will deliver price equalization in capital goods, but cannot reproduce the observed trade flows. …
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willingness to pay theory linked to hierarchic demand. These findings on income inequality do not falsify the quality expansion …
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This paper develops an extended version of the quality-ladder model by allowing for heterogeneous markets. Based on this model, it presents an empirical analysis of innovation-based growth at the market level using a technometric measurement concept. It can be shown that a growth-promoting...
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Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer - the seller - follows from a nontrivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device,...
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differentiation, informed consumers exert a positive externality on the purchasers of the high quality good as its price decreases … when the share of informed consumers decreases. Considering also that the price of the low quality good increases with the … with pessimistic consumers we can explain demand collapses and insensitivity to price changes due to consumer suspicions …
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Der Gartenbau hat sich zu einem der weltweit dynamischsten Agrarsektoren entwickelt. Der Anbau von Obst und Gemüse birgt insbesondere für Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländer ein erhebliches Potential, um landwirtschaftliche Einkommen zu steigern und die ländliche Armut zu reduzieren....
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