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Do soda taxes affect the consumption and health of school-aged children? Evidence from France and Hungary

Gangl, Selina - 2021

This paper examines the effect of two different soda taxes on consumption behaviour and health of school-aged children … of the tax on soda consumption in Hungary. The reason for this finding could be the substitution of other unhealthy …

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Alcohol availability and alcohol-attributable mortality: Economic implications following a change in sales policy

Stoppel, Relika - 2020

It is commonly known that irresponsible alcohol use can have adverse effects. For some people it results in health … problems, for others in productivity loss, and some experience the worst possible outcome of alcohol misuse: death. This paper … estimates the effect of reduced alcohol sales hours on alcohol-attributable mortality (AAM) in Estonia. Using novel mortality …

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Changes in spatial structure of commercial activity in Central European towns - case of southwest Poland (1990-2010). Traditional shops vs. modern shopping structures

Szumilas, Agnieszka - 2012

Commercial sector, during the times of centrally planned economy was particularly neglected in Poland, as in all Eastern European countries. Economic transformation and political changes in the country after 1989 induced the development of the commercial sector. The subjects of the research are...

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Observed and unobserved regional determinants of FDI inflows: micro level analysis of the food industry firms in Russia

Gladysheva, Anna; Ratnikova, Tatiana - 2014

Observed and unobserved regional determinants of FDI inflows: micro level analysis of the food industry firms in Russia The development of Russian food industry is strategically important. Theoretically, the foreign capital inflow will help to renovate, modernize it and increase the...

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Resilience of agri-food system in the EU context: Pandemic crisis lessons and sectoral overview

Rusali, Mirela - 2021

Covid-19 crisis have revealed the most fragile social and economic aspects worldwide while confronting this overpowering collective challenge, yet having more impact on zones already vulnerable before pandemic broke in the first wave. Covidemia affected the agricultural sector in EU in the...

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Natural Disasters and Macroeconomic Performance: The Role of Residential Investment

Trimborn, Timo; Strulik, Holger - 2015

Recent empirical research has shown that income per capita in the aftermath of natural disasters is not necessarily lower than before the event. In many cases, income is not significantly affected and surprisingly, can even respond positively to natural disasters. Here, we propose a simple...

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Features of the European Maritime Clusters

Salvador, Regina; Simões, Abel; Soares, Carlos Guedes - 2015

The paper analyses the national and regional European maritime clusters according to the sea basin division proposed by the European Union Integrated Maritime Policy: Atlantic and Arctic oceans; Baltic, Black, Mediterranean and North seas. Besides the identification of all maritime sectors by...

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Endogenous Firm Entry in an Estimated Model of the U.S. Business Cycle

Offick, Sven; Winkler, Roland - 2013

This paper explores and quantifies the role of endogenous firm entry in amplifying and propagating shocks to the economy. To this end, we estimate two DSGE models on US data with Bayesian methods: one model with endogenous firm entry and translog preferences and one model without. Both models...

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Stagnant Wages, Sectoral Misallocation and Slowing Productivity Growth

Schmöller, Michaela - 2019

I propose a two-sector endogenous growth model with heterogeneous sectoral productivity and nonlinear hiring costs to analyse the link between sectoral resource allocation, low productivity growth and stagnant real wages. My results suggest that an upward shift in employment, triggered for...

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Distributional Effects of Surging Housing Costs under Schwabe`s Law of Rent

Steger, Thomas; Grossmann, Volker; Larin, Benjamin; … - 2019

The upward sloping trend of rents and house prices has initiated a debate on the consequences of surging housing costs for wealth inequality and welfare. We employ a frictionless two-sectoral macroeconomic model with a housing sector to investigate the dynamics of wealth inequality and the...

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