the case of Italy, where a mixed insurance system is in place. To this purpose, we specify a joint model for public and … through two channels: the direct impact on the demand for healthcare and that due to selection into VHI. We find evidence of …

development of the sex industry to an early temporary demand shock, i.e., U.S. military presence during the Vietnam War. Comparing …

-constrained consumers' access to financial markets make demand insensitive to interest rate fluctuations. The demand of credit … price sector influence aggregate demand and, for monetary policy to have its desired effect, the central bank has to …

treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …

The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand …

depends on the consumers' rational price expectations from the recent past. By implication, demand responses are more elastic … for price increases than for price decreases and thus firms face a downward-sloping demand curve that is kinked at the … consumers' reference price. Firms adjust their prices flexibly in response to variations in this demand curve, in the context of …