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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Welfare gains"”.
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How should we measure the digital economy?
… goods have zero price and as a result, the welfare gains from these goods are not reflected in GDP or productivity statistics. Chapter 1 proposes a way of directly measuring consumer's economic well-being using massive online choice experiments. It finds that digital goods generate a large …
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Three Essays in Financial Economics
… integration of Eurozone economies in terms of welfare gains from trade. Liquidity and integration have received considerable attention in recent years, particularly within the context of global financial and macroeconomic uncertainty over the last decade. In the first empirical essay, we …
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The Impact of Financial Integration in Mercosur
In sum, the welfare gains suggested by our model are very large, making a strong case for pursuing financial integration in Mercosur. Governments should continue with their efforts to achieve it, even though the positive results might not be immediate and some sectors may not initially benefit.
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A Stochastic Welfare Analysis of United States Rice Policy
… the relevance of the framework of stochastic welfare analysis, showing how government agricultural policies may improve economic welfare by reducing price risk faced by farmers. This study contributes to provide an empirical evidence on the magnitude of potential economic welfare gains of …
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Essays in Centralized Market Allocaitons
… and find some that result in significant welfare gains. Finally, I show that, in this setting, there is no evidence that manipulable mechanisms can yield a higher welfare gains.
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Agriculture, climate change, and adaptation in Morocco: A computable general equilibrium analysis
… global level, our hypothesis is verified. World welfare gains are highest under a multilateral trade liberalization scenario, which induces a total offset of climate change welfare losses. However, under partial trade liberalization, the welfare gains become very small in comparison with the …
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Ex-Ante Welfare Effects From Scale-Neutral Productivity Growth for Semi-Subsistence Orphan Crops: Genetically Modified Cassava in Sub-Sahara Africa
… bias. Conventional EDM may overestimate total welfare effects for GM cassava in Benin at significantly high probability, may lead to a point estimate of producers' welfare effects substantially different from that of an alternative model, and may slightly underestimate welfare gains for …
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Agricultural policy analysis under costly enforcement : an economic analysis of cheating
… subsidies and decoupled area payments results in welfare gains for producers that constitute a direct transfer from taxpayers. When, however, an output quota scheme is in effect, above-quota production results in losses for producers and welfare gains for consumers. The penalties on detected …
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Impact of Migration on Welfare of Migrant Sending Households in Selected Rural Areas of Zimbabwe
… moving out of poverty, thus signaling potential welfare linkages between migrants and family members left behind. The current study investigates the impact of migration on welfare of migrant sending households in rural Zimbabwe using cross-sectional data. The study employed a Counterfactual …
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Essays on Migration, Remittance, and Welfare
… the aggregate income shocks absorbing and welfare improving roles of remittances in emerging economies. I develop a model to derive testable implications for aggregate remittance behavior. Using a panel data set of 102 developing countries from 1975 to 2013 and the generalized method of …
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Essays on the economics of urban transportation
… of peak-hour road congestion pricing on commuter welfare, using a field experiment and GPS-based data collection in Bangalore, India. Commuters value time spent commuting highly and are moderately flexible to change departure time. However, welfare gains from optimal congestion pricing are …
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An Agent-Based Modeling Approach for Understanding General Education Course Allocation Mechanisms in Practice
… theoretically provable properties, the positive welfare gains of these properties may not be realized in practice. The implementation of course allocation mechanisms in practice is highly dependent on the heterogeneous, imperfectly rational network of students who are requesting course …
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Welfare Impacts of Alternative Public Policies for Environmental Protection in Agriculture in an Open Economy: A General Equilibrium Framework
… economic gain over and above the environmental gains) for two main reasons: pre-existing agricultural support subsidies and exports of agricultural products. The extent of the welfare gains differ across policies and with the nitrogen reduction target. In addition, this dissertation shows that a …
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An Ex-Ante Economic Impact Assessment of Bt Eggplant in Bangladesh, the Philippines and India
… in India, Bangladesh and Philippines. The welfare benefits from adoption of Bt eggplant are projected to be positive in all three countries. The welfare gains from adoption (discounted at 5 percent) are projected to be US $ 411 million for India, US $ 37 million for Bangladesh and US$ 28 …
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Transgenic Pest Resistant Indica Rice: An Ex-ante Economic Evaluation of an Adoption Impact Pathway in the Philippines and Vietnam for Bt Rice
… Vietnam through the years 2000 to 2020. Total welfare gains from Bt rice are projected at 618.8 million USD (discounted at 5 percent) and aggregate benefits by region are projected at 269.6 million USD for the Philippines, 329.1 million USD for Vietnam, and 20.1 million USD for the rest of the …
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By how much did the Malawi economic crisis affect the welfare of the people? : evidence from survey data
… of Malawi. These areas actually experi- enced welfare gains, hence a decline in poverty. Sectoral decomposition results indicate that within area changes in poverty incidence, depth and severity contributed heavily to the overall change in poverty as opposed to population movements between …
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Welfare impacts of GMO adoption along the marketing chain
… numerous studies attempting to measure the welfare gains. There are obvious gains from adopting the technology from a production efficiency standpoint, as it significantly decreases production cost and simplifies weed control management. However, with some consumers being reluctant to …
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A critical evaluation of road pricing in South Africa Duncan Lishman.
… of goods will be carried by rail. Despite the welfare gains that the policy offers, one must be cognisant of the distortions that optimal road pricing may have.
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Three essays in macroeconomics
… the government to realize about 90% of the welfare gains from moving to complete markets.
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Economic integration of the East African community
… through assessment of the trade and welfare effects of a Preferential Trade Agreement(PTA) on its member countries. In particular, it examines the potential and actual impacts of the East African Community (EAC), which is hailed as one of the most successful PTAs in Africa (Koami et …
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