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There is wide variation in how consumption is measured in household surveys, both across countries and over time. This variation may confound welfare comparisons in part because these alternative survey designs produce consumption estimates differentially influenced by contrasting types of...
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demand for movies per inhabitant. Furthermore, we test for the long run relationship and evaluate the elasticities of demand …
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-dynamics that gave rise to different patterns of innovation in the two countries. In particular, we suggest that different demand …
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derivation builds a permanent income type consumption demand that corresponds to a consumption theory that depends on current …
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demand for first-generation wireless services using (i) consumerlevel panel data from a real world pricing experiment and (ii … conditional usage probability small. Demand for first-generation wireless services was highly elastic and the welfare gains to an … (early) adopter moderate. Pricing and taxation of wireless services had a large suppressing effect on demand …
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We develop a new econometric framework that simultaneously allows recovering heterogeneity in demand, TFP and markups … quantify TFP, demand and markups and show how they are correlated among them, across time and with measures obtained from other …
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This report provides estimates of structural (demographic) housing demand at a regional level. Any assessment of … structural future housing demand relies on assumptions around (1) population growth, (2) headship rates (the typical household … size) and (3) rates of obsolescence of the housing stock. Each of these key drivers of structural housing demand is subject …
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In many countries the demand for health care services is of increasing importance. Especially in the industrialized … those demand functions will therefore become invaluable tools. This article proposes a prediction method for the …
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This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....
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