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associated with responses to questions about income and consumption adequacy. Results show that isolation is associated with a … significant reduction in subjective assessments of income and consumption adequacy, even after controlling for consumption … consumption may seriously underestimate the subjective welfare cost of isolation, and hence will tend to bias downward the …
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structural neo-classical model to analyze household production, consumption, time allocation and welfare. The purpose is to study … the effect on production, consumption, and time allocation of changes in education and wage rates. Most of the available … or consumption. This paper uses this indicator in an analysis of economic inequality. The methodological approach is …
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The point of parallel imports of pharmaceuticals is arbitrage between countries with different prices. For several years, an important issue in the European Union (EU) has been the evident conflict between differing price regulations in the member states, on the one hand, and the consequences of...
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in determining production and consumption decisions is not clearly established by economic theories of household choice …. This study demonstrates that where choices in production, consumption, and leisure can be made independently, farmers will …, production and marketed goods consumption -- on crop production and tax revenues. This paper also reports on a model of …
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In modeling the supply of perennial crops, many researchers have used the vintage-capital production approach, most recently formulated by Akiyama and Trivedi. Implementing this approach requires reliable time-series data on production, total area planted, new planted area, yields, real producer...
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The purpose of this study is to identify the best modeling platform for the analysis of alternative environmental policy instruments designed to reduce the emission of pollutants from point sources, most notably, central power generating stations and manufacturing facilities. The primary...
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Developments driven by trade liberalization and tehcnological progress mean that old development strategies, based on state intervention and trade protection, no longer work. Global competition has brought a growing emphasis on product standards, rapid innovation, adaptability, and speedy...
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Since the 1970s, commodity prices have fallen in international markets at the same time that consumer pries have risen. The price of coffee declined 18 percent on world markets between 1975 and 1993, for example, but the consumer price for it increased 240 percent in the United States....
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Should countries such as Poland or the USSR move toward more flexible prices gradually or in a"big bang?"Why is it that governments committed to eventual price flexibility so often seem to be unable to let go of"temporary"controls? Why, after price increases early in a program of price controls,...
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Tariff exemptions for exporters are widely used by many countries as aninstrument for providing export incentives. This author argues that when tariff exemptions are granted as a means of industrial regional promotion to an industry independently of its export performance, the tariff exemptions...
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