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We identify a natural counterpart of the standard GARP for demand data in which goods are all indivisible. We show that ….: Micro. 5(1) p.28-34 (2013), who rather minimally modify the original consumer problem with indivisible goods so that the …
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the upper and the lower limit. The purpose of this article is to challenge several myths related to the cigarette taxation … in the EU. The first one is that an increase of the specific component of the cigarette excise negatively affects the … the paper is that an increase of the specific excise increases the government revenue from cigarette excises, whereby this …
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This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population....
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little evidence that bilateral trust affects international movements of goods and labor. More generally, we highlight the …
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This paper investigates capital market integration in the major Central European emerging economies by testing the covered and uncovered interest parity conditions vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar and the DM/euro. The results for the Central European economies since 1997 are contrasted against those...
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Using detailed firm-level transactions data for UK imports, we find that invoicing in a vehicle currency is pervasive …, with more than half of transactions in our sample invoiced in neither sterling nor the exporter's currency. We then study … the relationship between invoicing currency choices and the response of import prices to exchange rate changes. We find …
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This paper examines persistence in the cryptocurrency market. Two different long-memory methods (R/S analysis and fractional integration) are used to analyse it in the case of the four main cryptocurrencies (BitCoin, LiteCoin, Ripple, Dash) over the sample period 2013-2017. The findings indicate...
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This comment provides a reply to Prof. Feige's paper with the title "Reflections on the Meaning and Measurement of Unobserved Economies: What do we really know about the 'Shadow Economy'?", in which Prof. Feige heavily criticizes me. I show that the same critique which Prof. Feige raises against...
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