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food demand in relation to food prices over time using data from the British National Food Survey (NFS) covering the period … energy from carbohydrate have been explored deriving nutrients elasticities with respect to variation of food prices. …
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in house prices and a glut of homes for sale on the market. While the idea that this overhang of dwellings for sale … should place downward pressure on house prices is intuitive, little empirical work has been done in this area. This paper … explicitly models the relationship between changes in house prices and various measures of housing supply. The results show that …
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This paper reviews the existing empirical evidence on the short-term impact on prices of fiscal variables and assesses … Commission and the OECD models. Overall, a broad consensus appears on the impact on prices of changes in individual government … limited impact on prices in the first year while, in contrast, changes in indirect taxes and employers' social security …
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This paper investigates the persistence of aggregate wages and prices in Portugal assuming a model of a unionized … wages is attributable mainly to unemployment shocks (about 80 percent), whereas variation in the forecast errors of prices …). Productivity shocks explain somewhat less than 10 percent of the variation in forecast errors of wages and prices. …
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prices of most consumer goods. They are the main interface between producers of consumer goods and consumers, with around … substantial, as this accounts for, on average, about 25% of consumer prices. The purpose of this report is to analyse the … structural features of the distributive trades sector and the developments within it, as well as how these may influence prices …
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This study uses a comprehensive framework to quantify the welfare changes of rural and non-rural households in Mexico associated with the food price crisis of 2007. The total change in welfare is decomposed into five contributors. I find that income effects, i.e. changes through profits and...
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The paper offers a new theoretical framework for linking inflation and accumulation, with the Israeli experience as a case study. The focal point is the process of differential accumulation by the largest core firms. The theory of differential accumulation suggests that the relative power of...
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higher prices have a causal effect on quality of care in Swiss nursing homes and assesses the extent of cross … care prices and prices for accommodation and services on care quality, measured by registered staffing levels. Our …, limiting care prices implicitly sets a limit for care quality and induces care providers to pass on costs to the residents. …
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2008-2015 by: the unemployment rate, the exchange rate, crude oil prices, the trade weighted U.S. Dollar Index and the M2 …
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