Public Economics and Startup Entrepreneurs [PDF]
This paper surveys the various forms of market failure that can arise when innovating entrepreneurs consider entering an industry, and outlines possible implications for public policy.
Jean-François Tremblay, Robin Boadway
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Erratum: ‘Public and private pharmaceutical spending as determinants of health outcomes in Canada’ by Pierre‐Yves Crémieux, Marie‐Claude Meilleur, Pierre Ouellette, Patrick Petit, Martin Zelder and Ken Potvin, Health Economics 2005; 14: 107–116 [PDF]
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The Dog ATE my Economics Homework! Estimates of the Average Effect of Treating Hawaii’s Public High School Students with Economics* [PDF]
Hawaii is one of 27 states that do not require testing of public high school students regarding their understanding of economics. We report results for the first economics test administered to a large sample of students in Hawaii public high schools ...
Kimberly Burnett, Sumner La Croix
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ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe+2 more
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Public or private economies of knowledge: The economics of diffusion and appropriation of bioinformatics tools [PDF]
Mark Harvey, Andrew McMeekin
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The Economics of Public Health and Medical Care [PDF]
Ray Lyman Wilbur
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Infrastructure services in developing countries : access, quality, costs and policy reform [PDF]
The authors review the evidence on the state of infrastructure in the developing world, emphasizing the investment needs and the emerging policy issues.
Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia+2 more
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Facts and fiction in public economics: How behavioral and experimental economics can inform public policy [PDF]
Riedl
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