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| Morrissey, Oliver; Zgovu, Evious. |
| This paper estimates the impact on a sample of 34 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries of eliminating tariffs on imports from the EU under Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), considering trade, welfare and revenue effects. Even assuming ‘immediate’ complete elimination of all tariffs on imports from the EU, some two-thirds of ACP countries are likely to experience welfare gains; the ACP overall and the average ACP country gain. The overall welfare effect relative to GDP tends to be very small, whether positive or negative. While potential tariff revenue losses are non-negligible, given that countries have at least ten years in which to implement the tariff reductions, there is scope for tax substitution. An important issue is identifying the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: EU-ACP; Economic Partnership Agreement; ACP Imports; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44205 |
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| Lloyd, Tim A.; Morgan, C. Wyn; McCorriston, Steve; Zgovu, Evious. |
| This paper assesses the impact of promotional activity in the prices of food products on supermarket shelves. The study analyses a unique, high frequency panel of supermarket prices consisting of over 230,000 weekly price observations on around 500 products in 15 categories of food stocked by the UK’s seven largest retail chains. In all, 1,700 weekly time series are available at the barcode-specific level including branded and own label products. Prices are inclusive of promotions and thus allow the frequency, magnitude and duration of sales to be analysed in greater detail than has hitherto been possible with UK data. Using this price data, sales periods are indentified. Results show that around 8% of products are on sale at any one time, and that sales... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food retailing; Pricing; Sales; Demand and Price Analysis; Industrial Organization; Marketing; L16; L66; Q13. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51572 |
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