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Indian Buyers in Global Markets : Quality, Prices, and Productivity
Anderson, Michael A.; Davies, Martin H; Signoret, J.E; … - 2021
We examine import prices paid by direct-sourcing Indian manufacturing firms in the early 2000s using a unique data set that matches firm characteristics with product and source-country trade data, offering a theoretical and empirical extension of Halpern and Koren (2007). We find that import...
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Efficiency effects of cross-border medical demand
Lukas, Daniel - 2009
There is a growing interest in cross-border medical care and its comparative advantages. In addition, medical care can be defined as a local assurance good. Little research is being carried out in this field. This paper discusses the individual considerations for medical treatment offered at...
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The Geography of Consumption
Agarwal, Sumit - 2017
We use detailed information from U.S. consumers' credit card purchases to provide the first large scale description of the geography of consumption. We find that consumers' mobility is quite limited and document significant heterogeneity in the importance of gravity across sectors. We develop a...
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Marginal Consumers, Marginalized Economics : Whose Tastes and Habits Should the WTO Panels and Appellate Body Consider When Assessing ‘Likeness’?
Iacovides, Marios - 2020
In Philippines - Distilled Spirits, the Appellate Body of the WTO reaffirmed that the determination of 'likeness' in … the GATT should be about the competitive relationship between products. A coherent methodology for the determination of … bodies of the WTO is still inadequate, as demonstrated by the disputes examined in this article. One recurrent problem is the …
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Do Consumers Discount Parallel Imports?
Chen, Kong-Pin - 2016
Using data from Taiwan's Yahoo! auctions of Nikon cameras, this paper investigates whether there exists any difference in transaction results between commodities which are sold by authorized sellers and those which are parallel imports. We find that the parallel imports and the authorized...
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Preference Externalities and Consumer Opposition to Free Trade
Durbin, Erik - 2002
This paper aims to explain why some consumers may rationally object to free trade. I describe a differentiated-goods economy in which agents differ in their preferences across categories of goods. Due to increasing returns in production the number of goods produced in a given category depends on...
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Global supply chain pressures, international trade, and inflation
Di Giovanni, Julian; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Silva, Álvaro - 2022
We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on euro area inflation and how it compares to the experiences of other countries, such as the United States, over the two-year period 2020-21. Our model-based calibration exercises deliver four key results: (1) compositional effects, or the switch...
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Pass-through and consumer search : an empirical analysis
Richards, Timothy J.; Gómez, Miguel I.; Lee, Jun - In: American journal of agricultural economics 96 (2014) 4, pp. 1049-1069
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Discriminatory trade promotions in consumer search markets
Janssen, Maarten C. W.; Reshidi, Edona - In: Marketing science 42 (2023) 2, pp. 401-422
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