What Influences International Differences in Broadband Prices?

Do Prices and Attributes Explain International Differences

Food purchases differ substantially across countries. We use detailed household level data from the US, France and the UK to (i) document these differences; (ii) estimate a demand system for food and nutrients, and (iii) simulate counterfactual choices if households faced prices and nutritional characteristics from other countries. We find that differences in prices and characteristics are impo...

Do Prices and Attributes Explain International Differences in Food Purchases?∗

Food purchases differ substantially across countries. We use detailed household level data from the US, France and the UK to (i) document these differences; (ii) estimate a demand system for food and nutrients, and (iii) simulate counterfactual choices if households faced prices and nutritional characteristics from other countries. We find that differences in prices and characteristics are impo...

Measuring Broadband Internet Prices

International comparisons of pharmaceutical prices: what do we know, and what does it mean?

Editorial International comparisons of pharmaceutical prices: what do we know, and what does it mean? In their article in this issue of the Journal of Health Economics, ''Cross-National Price Differences for Pharmaceuticals: How Large, and Why?'', Patricia Danzon and Li-Wei Chao report on research suggesting that, contrary to conventional wisdom and previously published research, prices of phar...

Immigration and International Prices ∗

This paper considers the relation between immigration and prices for a large number of cities across the world over the period from 1990 to 2006. Immigration is shown to have a negative impact on international relative prices. A 10 percent increase in the share of immigrant workers in total employment decreases the prices of final goods and services by more than 2.5 percent. Our results suggest...