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Abstract: The present study analyses the labor productivity performance in the export maquiladora industry of Mexico (EMI), by sectors and states, comparing the northern border region to the rest of Mexican states during the period 1990-1999. The study is based on conditional convergence...
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Background: Economic theory strongly suggests that better information about the quality of care affects patients’ choice of health service providers. However, we have little empirical evidence about the impact of information provided on provider’s choice in Germany. Problem: In Germany, we...
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commodity prices. I assemble and analyze a new data set of prices and production levels of copper, lead, tin, zinc, and crude … prices return to their declining or stable trends in the long run. …
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This paper examines the behaviour of exchange rate pass-through to domestic prices in India after the reforms initiated … prices until recent years. Besides economic factors typically associated with economic liberalisation, the persistence of …
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We present an information good pricing model with persistently heterogeneous consumers and a rising marginal propensity for them to pirate. Three offsetting pricing mechanisms occur: skimming, compressing price changes, and delaying product launch. We identify a novel trade off in piracy's...
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indicators on the evolution of cultivated surfaces, yields and prices for main crops: the average annual rate of growth …
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In this paper the issue of causality between wages and prices in R.Macedonia has been tested. OLS relationship between … prices and wages is positive; productivity is not significant in determination of prices or wages too. Engle-Granger test …
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) into imported intermediate input prices and its role in the price setting behaviour of exporters. We explicitly include … disaggregated proxies for imported input prices in our analyses to investigate whether Swiss ex-porters may have “naturally hedged … high ERPT into imported input prices in all sectors and strong sectoral ERPT heterogeneity on the export side in both the …
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Taking into consideration the new Common Agricultural Policy (2014 -2020, for the milk sector, which will have as main component the milk quota removal after 2014, the present paper makes a comparative analysis of the indicators from the milk chain links (agriculture, processing, trade,...
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The paper presents a model to analyze the adjustment of prices of non-traded food staples to changes in global food … prices via the response of traded commodities in domestic markets. It shows that the impact on local prices of shocks … interconnectedness, the model used here allows us to trace the future impact of shocks on local prices over time and thus helps policy …
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