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important role in meeting the growing demand for electricity but rebound effect can affect the effectiveness of conservation … policies. We decompose the sectoral electricity prices to capture the asymmetric demand response to electricity price changes … and estimate electricity demand elasticity during 1980 and 2015 to estimate the sectoral rebound effects. We find partial …
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Provides a practical tool for the design and implementation of sustainable microfinance interventions, with a particular focus on rural areas. Provides guidance on who to target, how to establish and maintain savings and lending schemes, what kind of training to provide, gender concerns and cost...
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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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reduction in some countries have not been the accelerator sufficient for the global recovery. The general level of demand is low … demand, as well as the options available for removal of those causes and revitalization of the effects. One of the main … causes of decrease in demand in a long run is the asymmetrical distribution of income which has led to a reduction in …
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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 …
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own-price elasticity of quantity demand for soda of between -1.0 and -1.3. These estimates ignore consumer responses on … prices to estimate unrestricted demand models that correct for both errors. The corrected own-price elasticity of quantity … demand is just -0.2 to -0.3, so tax-induced soda price increases might cut average weights by less than one pound, which is …
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