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Product differentiation and firm size distribution: an application to carbonated soft drinks

Walsh, Patrick Paul; Whelan, Ciara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Using brand-level retail data, the firm size distribution in carbonated soft drinks is shown to be an outcome of the degree to which firms have placed brands effectively (store coverage) across vertical (flavour, packaging, diet attributes) segments of the market. Regularity of the firm size...

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Taxes, cigarette consumption, and smoking intensity: reply

Adda, Jérôme; Cornaglia, Francesca - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to changes in excise taxes and tobacco prices. We exploit NHANES data covering the period 1988 to 2006 across many US states. Moreover, using panel data from the Coronary Artery Risk...

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L'enquête du Crédoc sur les comportements alimentaires des français

Lahlou, Saadi - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1990

Ces résultats sont tirés de travaux réalisés au Crédoc (Centre de Recherche pour l'Etude et l'Observation des Conditions de Vie), dans le département "Prospective de la Consommation", par Joèlle Maffre, François Yvon, Marie-Paule Bayol, Frédéric Oble, avec la participation de Isabelle...

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Maximum Likelihood in the Frequency Domain: a Time to Build Example.

Christiano, L.J.; Vigfusson, R.J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

A well known result is that the Gaussian log-likelihood can be expressed as the sum over different frequency components. This implies that the likelihood ratio statistic has a similar linear decomposition. We exploit these observations to devise diagnostic methods that are useful for...

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Government spending shocks, wealth effects and distortionary taxes

Cloyne, James - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

including output, consumption and the real wage. I find that the role of the wealth effect on labor supply is small and that …

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The optimal consumption function in a Brownian model of accumulation. Part a: the consumption function as solution of a boundary value problem

Foldes, Lucien - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996

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Freedom to be a child: commercial pressures on children

Piachaud, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Children’s lives have been transformed over the past century. Family incomes have increased, children lead more solitary lives, attitudes to childhood have changed, new products have been developed and commercial pressures on children have increased. The importance of these commercial...

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The optimal consumption function in a Brownian model of accumulation. Part b: existence of solutions of boundary value problems

Foldes, Lucien - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996

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The optimal consumption function in a Brownian model of accumulation part b: existence of solutions of boundary value problems

Foldes, Lucien - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

In Part A of the present study, subtitled 'The Consumption Function as Solution of a Boundary Value Problem' Discussion … sufficient conditions for optimality of a plan generated by a logarithmic consumption function, i.e. a relation expressing log-consumption …

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The impact of wealth on consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK

Blake, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Housing and pension wealth are shown to be important determinants of personal sector consumption and retirement … behaviour in the UK. Housing and state pension wealth have a positive effect on consumption, while private pension wealth … shown to be important. The consumption equation forecasts the late 1980s boom and the early 1990s slump in the UK better …

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