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Further study on the affordability of alcoholic beverages in the EU ; A focus on excise duty pass-through, on- and off-trade sales, price promotions and pricing regulations LILA

Rabinovich, Lila (contributor); Hunt, Priscillia (contributor) - Directorate General for Health & Consumers; RAND Europe - 2012

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The affordability of alcoholic beverages in the European Union ; Understanding the link between alcohol affordability, consumption and harms ; Technical report

Rabinovich, Lila (contributor); … - Directorate General for Health & Consumers; RAND Europe - 2009

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Study on price transmission in the sugar sector

Maurizio Aragrande; Enrica Gentile; Mauro Bruni - Areté srl - 2012

assess the influence of the 2006 reform of the EU sugar regime on price transmission in the sugar sector. The investigations … to be carried out had to focus on the different types of transmission of price changes, studying the reasons for any … uneven or asymmetric price transmission between sugar producers and final consumers, and taking into account the intermediate …

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Making sustainable consumption and production a reality

Julien, Bruno (contributor) - 2009

This guide shows how a life cycle approach can be used to identify and reduce the environmental and health impacts of the products we use. It underlines the importance of considering these issues across the entire life cycle of a product and sets them within the context of policy development,...

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Private consumption in France - stubbornly high, or responsive to determinants?

Casaux, Suzanne; Ecochard, Pierre - 2011

This Country Focus studies the development of private consumption in France during the decade before the crisis. Are French consumers greater spendthrifts than their European fellows? In this paper, we estimate a consumption function to show that strong growth of private consumption in France...

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German consumption: is there hope for a revival?

Eppendorfer, Carsten; Stierle, Michael H. - 2008

In Germany private consumption virtually stagnated for nearly a decade and clearly lagged behind GDP growth. This Country Focus uses the estimation of a consumption function to show that the drop in employment is the most important factor behind the reluctance to consume in the first half of...

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Information acquisition and decision making in committees

Gerling, Kerstin; Grüner, Hans Peter; Kiel, Alexandra; … - 2003

This is a survey on the recent game theoretic literature on committee decision making. We consider theoretical work on the role of (i) strategic voting, (ii) costly information acquisition, (iii) conflicting interests, and (iv) communication in committees. Moreover, we review recent experimental...

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Government deficits, wealth effects and the price level in an optimizing model

Annicchiarico, Barbara - 2003

. Simulation results show that government defcits, high debt level and slow fiscal adjustment adversely affect price stability in … policy affects the dynamics of the price level presents monetarist properties, since the price level is determined in the … monetary market. The effects produced by fiscal expansions on price dynamics are due to the behavior of consumers, facing a …

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Implementing optimal control in cointegrated I(1) structural VAR models

Monti, Francesca V. - 2003

This paper examines the feasibility of implementing Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) Control in structural cointegrated VAR models and sheds some light on the two major problems generated by such implementation. The first aspect to be taken into account is the effect of the presence of unit roots...

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Monetary and fiscal interactions in open economies

Lombardo, Giovanni; Sutherland, Alan - 2003

A two-country sticky-price model is used to analyse the interactions between fiscal and monetary policy. The role of an …

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