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"While public discussion of HR 2454 (the "Waxman Markey" bill) has focused on the cap-andtrade program that would be established for carbon emissions, the bill also includes provisions that would tighten energy efficiency standards for consumer appliances. Supporters argue that appliance...
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We use an experiment to test whether consumers optimally acquire information on energy costs in appliance markets where, like many contexts, consumers are poorly informed and make mistakes despite freely-available information. We find consumers acquire information suboptimally; there is little...
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We document key patterns in the flow of significant gifts and loans between friends and family in Great Britain, using … newly-available data from the Wealth and Assets Survey. We identify a number of new stylised facts. Gifts and loans are … generally intergenerational transfers: 83% of the value of gifts and 68% of the value of loans is made by parents to their …
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Understanding the drivers of wealth transfers during life is crucial to understanding the intergenerational transmission of inequality, the optimal design of social insurance, and the efficacy of expansionary fiscal policy. To shed light on this, we analyse the relationships between giving and...
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