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Durable goods, price indexes and quality change: an application to automobile prices in Italy, 1988-1998. [PDF]
The paper analyzes the problems of measurement of durable consumer prices posed by quality change. Theoretical price indexes are defined and used to analyze several empirical methods of estimation of quality adjusted price indexes.
Gian Maria Tomat
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Competition in markets for life insurance [PDF]
This report presents an empirical analysis of competition in the market for life insurance. In this market, financial advisors play a large role. Therefore, the report devotes considerable attention to the functioning of the market for financial advice ...
Cora Zonderland +3 more
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How the strategic review of charges 2002-06 casts a long shadow over future water charges in Scotland [PDF]
, 2006 The findings of the research described in this paper are that there were significant errors made in the setting of water charges in 2002-06 in Scotland, such that there was substantial overcharging of customers. This will continue at a lesser extent over
Cuthbert, Jim, Cuthbert, Margaret
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The Exchange Rate Pass-through into Import Prices: The Case of Japanese Meat Imports [PDF]
The effect of exchange rate pass-through on import prices is a question of significant interest to many nations and especially those with permanent trade deficit.
Miljkovic, Dragan, Zhuang, Renan
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, 2010 This Essay argues that empathy does and should play an important, albeit limited role, in a judge’s decision making process. Specifically, empathy is essential for making correct, principled, and unbiased judgments, because empathy is one of the few ...
Miller, Darrell A. H.
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Education Finance Reform in New York: Calculating the Cost of a 'Sound Basic Education' in New York City [PDF]
In June 2003 the New York State Court of Appeals altered the education-finance landscape with its ruling in Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. New York. This ruling called for “[r]eforms to the current system of financing school funding” designed to ensure ...
Anna Lukemeyer +2 more
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A comparison of yields on future contracts and implied forward rates [PDF]
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Richard W. Lang, Robert H. Rasche
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Defining Price Stability in Japan: A View from America [PDF]
Japanese monetary and fiscal policy uses the consumer price index (CPI) as a metric for price stability. Despite a major effort to improve the index, the Japanese methodology of calculating the CPI seems to have a large number of deficiencies.
Christian Broda, David E. Weinstein
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Environmentally Adjusted Elasticity Measures [PDF]
Here, using input, output and nitrogen pollution data related to one state, we propose to extend the elasticity concept to include environmental pollution treated as undesirable output to provide the environmentally adjusted elasticity measures for the ...
Shaik, Saleem
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The Microstructure of the Bond Market in the 20th Century [PDF]
Bonds are traded in OTC markets, where opacity and fragmentation imply large transaction costs for retail investors. Is there something special about bonds, in contrast to stocks, that precludes trading in transparent, limit-order markets?
Bruno Biais, Richard C. Green
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