The paper develops a quality adjusted professional sports franchise price index for North America based on a repeat sale method. This index reflects trends in the general price of sports franchises holding local market, facility, and team characteristics constant. The price index exhibits considerable volatility but no upward trend over time, unlike previous quality adjusted price indexes based...

Over the last few years, a great deal of attention has been devoted to lowering the cost of HIV treatment in developing nations. Due to generic competition, activist and political pressure, and movement within the pharmaceutical industry itself, the cost of a typical three-drug anti-HIV combination has plummeted in some countries. Regimens that cost $15,000–$20,000 per person per year in the US...

Mastering the underlying characteristics of carbon price changes can help governments formulate correct policies to keep efficient operation of carbon markets, and investors take effective measures to evade their investment risks. Empirical mode decomposition (EMD), a self-adaption data analysis approach for nonlinear and non-stationary time series, can accurately explain the formation mechanis...

OBJECTIVE To describe the evolution of cigarettes' real price and affordability during the last decade in Argentina. METHODS To analyze the real price of cigarettes, the weighted average monthly price of a pack of 20 cigarettes was divided by the consumer price index (CPI) from 2004 to 2014. The relative income price (RIP) was evaluated for the same period, defining RIP as the percentage of t...