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Vaughan, Matthew John - 2011

Many products consumed on college campuses such as coffee and chocolate come from developing countries where producers are often paid insufficiently and exploited. Fair Trade certification of products guarantees producers a fair price and other social benefits. The objective of my CE/T project...

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Serving the Highly Vulnerable Customer: The Awareness of Transformative Service Behaviors in Sensitive Populations

Aiello, Taryn - 2011

The purpose of this study is to identify ideal behaviors and attitudes that are needed by service providers that cater to highly vulnerable populations. While the conceptualization of customer vulnerability has been widely debated in business, marketing, sociology, and psychology scholarly...

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The tax filing system and tax aid service in Australia

Bentley, Duncan - 2002

[Extract] That all taxpayers have the right in Australia to lodge a return is a privilege. However, many find it a heavy burden and favour simplification. Professional bodies and individuals have proposed alternatives that allow for tax withheld at source to be a final tax, eliminating the need...

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Financial frictions and the wealth distribution

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Hurtado López, Samuel; … - 2020

We postulate a nonlinear DSGE model with a financial sector and heterogeneous households. In our model, the interaction between the supply of bonds by the financial sector and the precautionary demand for bonds by households produces significant endogenous aggregate risk. This risk induces an...

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Wealth inequality and household structure : US vs. Spain

Bover Hidiroglu, Olympia - 2008

We study the link between culturally inherited household structure and wealth distribution in international comparisons using household data for the US and Spain (the SCF and the EFF). We estimate counterfactual US distributions relying on the Spanish household structure. Our results show that...

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Controlling a distribution of heterogeneous agents

Nuño Barrau, Galo; Moll, Benjamin - 2015

Este artículo analiza el problema de un planificador benevolente que desea controlar una población de agentes heterogéneos sujetos a perturbaciones idiosincrásticas. Esto es equivalente a un problema de control determinista en el que la variable de estado pertinente es la distribución de...

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Projected refined product balances in key Latin American countries: A preliminary examination

2009

Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....

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Effect of market structure on international coal trade

Kolstad, C.D.; Abbey, D.S. - 2009

This paper is concerned with the determinants of international steam-coal trade. Most work in projecting coal trade has been either qualitative (a consensus of experts) or, if quantitative, has been based on competitive spatial-equilibrium models. Unfortunately, the competitive model of trade...

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Impact of Free Trade Agreements on the Colombian Beef Sector

Gomez, Miguel I.; Frank, Julieta; Parra, Tatiana - 2010

Colombia negotiated bilateral Trade Agreements (TAs) with the UnitedStates and with the MERCOSUR region (Argentina … meat consumers in Colombia. Our resultssuggest that with free imports of chicken parts from the U.S, beefconsumption and … Colombia gradually decreasesthe tariff for imported beef. We identify the reduction in marginalcosts required to compete with …

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The Impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Credit Behavior in Colombia

Pineros, Brittany - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer program in Colombia, on …

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