We study planned price changes in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand … during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand deficiencies dominate in the short run. Quarter … role for demand stimulus policy to buffer the Covid-19 economic crisis. …

price elasticity of demand for cannabis and implications for likely state excise and sales tax revenues. We use crowdsourced … elasticity of demand for cannabis. We use distances from growing areas to the major markets as a proxy for cost variations. We … obtain an estimate of the price elasticity of demand for cannabis of -0.418, which suggests that legalizing and taxing …

We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom … Lifestyles (Natsal2, conducted in 2000-2001 and Natsal3, conducted in 2010-2012) to illustrate the changes in demand that have … taken place across the two waves. We do not find demand decreasing in our sample and find a shift in the composition of …