affected the productivity and welfare of grain farmers in China at the regional level. We find that the price regulation that … growth in farmers. welfare. Although the price regulations resulted in short term improvement in welfare across all the …

pricing policies, macroeconomic distortions, and certain non-price factors on agricultural production. It turns out that – in … those cases where cointegration relationships are found – estimated supply elasticities tend to lie between 0.20 and 0 ….50. Among the non-price factors, drought episodes have significantly impaired agricultural growth in six out of ten sample …

We investigate the impact of exogenous local conditions which favour high market concentration on supply, price and … supply capacity as a market outcome alongside price and quality; (ii) taking account of the chain structure of care home … supply and differences between the nursing home and residential care home sectors; (iii) introducing a new econometric …

Previous empirical investigations provide evidence of substantial regional variation in the supply elasticity of … regulatory supply constraints, city level population, population density, and geographic constraints. This paper studies … indicating that the supply elasticity is largely a local phenomenon, i.e., dependent mainly on city specific factors rather than …

shopping districts. Our empirical results indicate that parking supply is far from perfectly price elastic, implying that there … 30% of the supply cost of a parking place in shopping districts. …

This paper investigates the economic implications of disruptions of one to ninety days to the supply of natural gas in … Ireland. We assess the impact of a hypothetical gas supply disruption in both winter and summer in 2008 (with observed market … approximately 8 billion euro in economic losses. We also discuss some options to increase Ireland's security of supply, and find …