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a dynamic panel-data model, our estimates indicate that decline of import-price sensitivity to the exchange rate is not …
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analyze three therapeutic classes with different treatment durations and show that the reform led to substantial price … decreases for our lifelong treatment and to less substantial price reductions for our medium duration treatment while we do not …
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We investigate the effect of variations in the price of opium in Afghanistan on per capita dispensation of prescription … expenses of opioid producers increase following opium price declines and so do their stock prices and profits. Overall, our …
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This paper empirically examines the degree of persistence in four precious metal prices (i.e., gold, palladium, platinum, and silver) during the last four U.S. recessions. Unit root tests and fractional integration techniques suggest that gold still is the most prominent safe haven asset within...
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2020, we find for manufacturing establishments a gas price elasticity of labor demand of −0.02, likely reflecting a scale … effect. We also show that a rise in the gas price leads to an increase in establishment closure. A negative impact of the gas … price on wages of 2 percent is consistent with rent-sharing …
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, 2001. We investigate especially the impact of the policy change on the price of illicit drugs. The analysis is performed …
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The consequences of tobacco control policies for individual welfare are difficult to assess. We therefore evaluate the impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions between 1990 and 2011. We exploit the staggered...
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We show that tax-induced increases in alcohol prices can lead to substantial substitution and avoidance behavior that limits reductions in alcohol consumption. Causal estimates are derived from a natural experiment in Illinois where spirits and wine taxes were raised sharply and unexpectedly in...
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provenance of the artwork, omitted variables in most previous studies, seem to be more important determinants of the sale price …;), although (4) there is strong evidence in our data for the declining price anomaly, or quot;afternoon effect.quot …
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the minimum wage and to the micro patterns of price stickiness. For that purpose, we use a unique dataset of individual … price quotes collected to calculate theConsumer Price Index in France and we estimate a price rigidity model based on a …
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