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Demand for Gasoline: Effects of a Durable Good [PDF]
This paper estimates empirical demand functions for premium gasoline. Specifically, it determines the effectiveness of policies designed to conserve gasoline by considering the effects of changes in gasoline prices on the demand for premium gasoline and ...
Young, Alfredo S.
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The public sector pay premium, compensating differentials and unions: propensity score matching evidence from Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States [PDF]
Propensity score matching is used to estimate the size of the public sector pay premium in four countries. Three sets of matching covariates are used; worker characteristics only, then including job attributes and finally adding union membership.
John Gibson
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Is there a premium in the size of nations?
, 2013 This paper examines the size premium of nations. Using panel data for more than 200 countries over 50 years we estimate a size premium (in terms of being small) in a variety of key economic and socio-economic indicators of performance of countries. We find that small countries are richer, have larger governments, but are also more prudent in terms of ...
Damijan, Joze +2 more
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Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We unpack the impact of expansions in ethanol production—as measured by proximity to newly constructed ethanol plants and capacity expansions—on farmland values using land transaction data from Kansas in combination with modern causal inference techniques.
Gabriel S. Sampson, Jisang Yu
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Size and Value Premium in Karachi Stock Exchange
Lahore Journal of EconomicsThis study evaluates the ability of the Fama and French Three Factor model to explain a cross section of stock returns in the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE).
Nawazish Mirza, Saima Shahid
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The Equity Risk Premium Puzzle in Pakistan
Market Forces, 2021 Our study uses the consumption-based asset-pricing power utility model to test the Equity Risk Premium (ERP) puzzle in Pakistan. The study has collected monthly stock price data from July 1997 to December 2017 from the PSX data portal.
Ali Sajid +3 more
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DO LARGE EMPLOYERS PAY MORE? THE CASE OF FIVE DEVELOPING AFRICAN COUNTRIES [PDF]
Using comparable data sets for five African countries, we evaluate possible explanations for the employer-size wage effect across these countries. Our results indicate that, apart from observable worker characteristics, most theories cannot explain very ...
Eric Strobl, Robert Thornton
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Are all meats substitutes? A basket‐and‐expenditure‐based approach
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the relationship among animal‐based meat and plant‐based meat alternatives (PBMAs) using a basket‐and‐expenditure‐based choice experiment. In particular, we examine whether animal‐based meat products are substitutes or complements with PBMAs.
Clinton L. Neill, Logan L. Britton
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Unveiling low productivity premium: A tale from emerging market
International Review of Economics & FinanceThis study investigates how firm-level productivity, measured by total factor productivity (TFP), is priced in cross-sectional stock returns in China, which is the largest emerging market as well as the global manufacturing hub. We document a significant
Zhiguo Ding +3 more
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Risk Premia for Emerging Markets Bonds: Evidence from Brazilian Government Debt, 1996-2002 [PDF]
The goal of this paper is to identify the determinants of the risk premium on Brazilian government debt traded in the emerging markets bonds. The empirical evidence presented does not reject the hypotheses that fiscal solvency and the size of the public ...
André Soares Loureiro +1 more
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