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Is the Focus on Food Deserts Fruitless? Retail Access and Food Purchases Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum

Handbury, Jessie - 2015

Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we …

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Exchange Rate Volatility and Global Food Supply Chains

Steinbach, Sandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper analyzes the impact of exchange rate risk on global food supply chains. Although the theoretical literature … for a balanced panel of 159 countries for 2001 to 2017. I study the relationship for 781 agricultural and food products … a primary source of international risk exposure for global food supply chains …

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Labor Dynamics and Supply Chain Disruption in Food Manufacturing

Ramsey, A. Ford; Goodwin, Barry K.; Haley, Mildred A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Food manufacturing and processing is an important link between agricultural producers and consumers in the agricultural … supply chain. The food manufacturing sector in the United States is both increasingly mechanized and increasingly … concentrated. Consequently, labor risks in food manufacturing have changed over time with changes in industry structure. Labor …

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Inflation Strikes Back : The Role of Import Competition and the Labor Market

Amiti, Mary; Heise, Sebastian; Karahan, Fatih; Şahin, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

U.S. inflation has recently surged, with inflation reaching its highest readings since the early 1980s. We examine the drivers of this rise in inflation, focusing on supply chain disruptions, labor supply constraints, and their interaction. Using a calibrated two-sector New Keynesian DSGE model...

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International Trade Responses to Labor Market Regulations

Muñoz, Mathilde - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies how differences in labor market regulations shape countries' comparative advantage in the cross-border provision of labor-intensive services, using administrative data in Europe for the last two decades. I exploit exogenous variation in labor taxes and minimum wages faced by...

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Airbus versus Boeing Revisited : International Competition in the Aircraft Market

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2001

This paper examines international competition in the commercial aircraft industry. We estimate a discrete choice, differentiated products demand system for wide-body aircraft and examine the Airbus-Boeing rivalry under various assumptions on firm conduct. We then use this structure to evaluate...

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The Global Effects of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms

Clausing, Kimberly A.; Colmer, Jonathan; Hsiao, Allan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We study carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) policies, as currently being implemented by the EU and UK. Policy discussions have cited three motivations and one concern. CBAMs can improve domestic competitiveness in regulated markets, reduce emissions leakage to unregulated markets, and...

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How Do Supply Shocks to Inflation Generalize? Evidence from the Pandemic Era in Europe

Acharya, Viral V.; Crosignani, Matteo; Eisert, Tim; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We document how supply-chain pressures, household inflation expectations, and firm pricing power interacted to induce the pandemic-era surge in consumer price inflation in the euro area. Initially, supply-chain pressures increased inflation through a cost-push channel and raised inflation...

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What Can the Price Gap between Branded and Private Label Products Tell Us about Markups?

Barsky, Robert - 2001

In this paper we investigate the size of markups for nationally branded products sold in the U.S. retail grocery industry. Using scanner data from a large Midwestern supermarket chain, we compute several measures of upper and lower bounds on markup ratios for over 230 nationally branded products...

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The Strategic Positioning of Store Brands in Retailer - Manufacturer Bargaining

Morton, Fiona Scott - 2000

We argue in this paper that retailers can strategically position store brands in product space to strengthen their bargaining position when negotiating supply terms with manufacturers of national brands. Using a bargaining framework we model a retailer's decision whether to carry an additional...

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