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Capitol Freeze: Fiscal Effects of Discretionary Spending Caps [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Analyzes trends in and components of the federal budget deficit and discretionary spending, the macroeconomic effects of a discretionary spending freeze, and the estimated effects of four freeze options on spending, the deficit, and publicly held ...

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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fixing Canada’s CPI: A Simple and Sensible Policy Change for Minister Flaherty [PDF]

open access: yes
Fixing measurement errors in the Consumer Price Index is a small idea that offers big payoffs to Canadians and the government. In this paper, the author says if the upcoming federal budget devoted the resources needed to improve Statistics Canada’s ...
Christopher Ragan
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The Herfindahl neutral point: A firm‐level threshold for managing market concentration with evidence from US hog packing

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper derives a firm‐level threshold, the Herfindahl Neutral Point, from the standard concentration index used in merger review. At this threshold, a marginal expansion leaves the index unchanged. Firms below the threshold reduce concentration when they expand; firms above it increase concentration.
Andrew J. Keller, Krishna P. Paudel
wiley   +1 more source

DNA methylation status of the cell proliferation genes in atherosclerosis

open access: yesАтеросклероз, 2013
The purpose of this study was to identify the features of methylation status of genes whose products are involved in the cell proliferation in vascular tissues of patients with atherosclerosis.
M. S. Nazarenko   +7 more
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