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prices in its favor. The deposit-purchase policy is inefficient since it leaves the first-period climate damage externality … non-internalized, which is in stark contrast to the efficiency of the deposit-purchase policy in static models. However …, for a proper subset of economies the deposit-lease policy turns out to be efficient. It internalizes the climate damage …
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This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a … differ from pre- and mid-crisis coping strategies. War-affected households are forced to adopt very risky coping strategies … that re-enforce their vulnerability. Households choose between market and non-market forms of exchange and even exit …
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The revealed residential choice of city versus suburbs within large metropolitan areas is examined with particular focus on families with children, especially those with college-educated parents. Probit and bivariate probit estimates are presented for 15 large metropolitan areas in the United...
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This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
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We use surveys of German households and firms to study the extent of information frictions among different groups of … with expert forecasts and less dispersed than households'. Moreover, firms update their policy rate expectations … significantly less when provided with an expert forecast and do not extrapolate to expected own borrowing rates, while households …
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In this study, we present and discuss the results of a longitudinal survey on consumers’ payment behaviour carried out yearly during the period 2010 to 2016. We have collected data among 119,117 Dutch consumers aged 12 years and older using single day payment diaries. Between 2010 and 2013 the...
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