The issue of rising prices is not a new phenomenon. There are causes that led to this rise occurs. One of it is the rise in fuel prices. Even though it is just ten cent rise, it affects the increase in the prices of goods. This problem persists despite a decline in fuel prices recently. In addition, a natural disaster is also no less a huge impact on the price hike. For countries that supply ag...

Developing a three-sector and four-factor general equilibrium model, this paper offers an explanation of wage inequality in a vertically fragmented production structure typical of off-shore outsourcing to developing countries like China or India. The model characterizes a typical developing economy where intermediate good is produced using capital and local low-skilled worker, traditional secto...

Using Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data, we create a new, up-todate panel dataset to investigate the impact of house price movements on the non-durable goods consumption of older households. We find that older homeowners respond asymmetrically when experiencing house price gains and house price losses. More specifically, they increase total non-durable goods expenditure when house prices a...

the agricultural products’ market has always been faced with many structural problems such as marketing weakness, price fluctuations and inadequate infrastructure and transportation in iran. a major cause of such structural problems has been referred to the traditional and inefficient structure of the agricultural products’ market. hence, iran mercantile exchange started its activity since 2007...

The thesis uses the end of the Multi-Fibre Agreement to test the theory of quality-upgrading, which states that firms facing quotas will export higher-quality products to generate the greatest economic rent from each individual exported good. The Multi-Fibre Agreement (MFA) is a set of quantitative restrictions placed by the US on textile exports from Asian nations that began in 1974 and ended ...

The thesis uses the end of the Multi-Fibre Agreement to test the theory of quality-upgrading, which states that firms facing quotas will export higher-quality products to generate the greatest economic rent from each individual exported good. The Multi-Fibre Agreement (MFA) is a set of quantitative restrictions placed by the US on textile exports from Asian nations that began in 1974 and ended ...

To examine the effect of the variance of consumer ratings on product pricing and sales we develop a model which considers goods that are characterized by two types of attributes: experience attributes and experience attributes that were transformed in search attributes by consumer ratings that we call informed search attributes. For pure informed search goods, we find that with increasing varia...

energy is considered as an important input for agricultural products. a decrease in energy subsidy and its demand reduces agricultural outputs and raises the production costs. changes in production and costs may significantly affect welfare of the agricultural producers. the main objective of this study was to analyze the impact of increased energy prices (reduction in the subsidy) on the agric...