Re: The paint market

2001-02-15 Thread david mitchinson
Consumers also derive utility from attriobutes of paint other than simply colour. i.e branding, lifestyle association eg idyllic country cottage lilac etc that may make the price differential justifiable. David _ Get Your P

Re: Growth, Wealth, and Race

2001-02-15 Thread Alexander Guerrero
I think that Aztecs are nearer to the north than to the equator!!! Alexander Guerrero fabio guillermo rojas wrote: > > Question: What would controlling for racial composition do to these > > results? Clearly there is high collinearity between race and latitude, > > though modern transportation

Re: Growth, Wealth, and Race

2001-02-15 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
> Question: What would controlling for racial composition do to these > results? Clearly there is high collinearity between race and latitude, > though modern transportation is weakening the connection. If you do > both latitude and racial composition, what would happen? Does anyone > have har

Re: The paint market

2001-02-15 Thread Richard . Eichmann
There is paint arbitrage and clothing arbitrage --- it's called buying wholesale and selling retail.  In most cases the role of the retailer as that of a distributor only, and the further processing he/she takes can simply be adding a nice display case.  As for buying paint at Home Depot, changing

Re: Growth, Wealth, and Race

2001-02-15 Thread Alexander Robert William Robson
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Bryan Caplan wrote: > Sachs has popularized a strong finding: Distance from the equator > explains a great deal of the variation in income *levels* between > countries. The further from the equator, the richer countries are. > There are also some parallel findings for gro

The paint market

2001-02-15 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
Someone who used to work in a paint factory told me that paint manufacturers can sell the same paint for different prices just by changing the label. The same can would be marketed to different kinds of consumers and fetch different prices. >From what I was told, this practice is fairly common

Re: U.S. income & wealth inequality

2001-02-15 Thread John Harvey
I'm new to the forum here. John S. Harvey, Ph.D. Madison Wisconsin 1997. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/15/01 12:12PM >>> Yann forwards: At a time when the top 1% of U.S. citizens owns more wealth than the bottom 95% the new U.S. President wants to further cut the taxes of that wealt

Re: Growth, Wealth, and Race message dated "Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:53:34 -0500."

2001-02-15 Thread Sourav K. Mandal
"Bryan Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" wrote: > Sachs has popularized a strong finding: Distance from the equator > explains a great deal of the variation in income *levels* between > countries. The further from the equator, the richer countries are. > There are also some parallel findings for gro

Growth, Wealth, and Race

2001-02-15 Thread Bryan Caplan
Sachs has popularized a strong finding: Distance from the equator explains a great deal of the variation in income *levels* between countries. The further from the equator, the richer countries are. There are also some parallel findings for growth - controlling for other factors, growth is slowe

RE: U.S. income & wealth inequality

2001-02-15 Thread Jacob Wimpffen Bræstrup
Dear Yann (and others) I don't really know what your point was with these facts, but I would like to point out a few things I find amusing... you wrote: * In 1998, 18.7 percent of American children lived in poverty, a lower rate than 1993 (19.6 percent), but higher than the 1979 rate of 16.4 per

Re: U.S. income & wealth inequality

2001-02-15 Thread M. A. Johnson
Yann forwards: At a time when the top 1% of U.S. citizens owns more wealth than the bottom 95% the new U.S. President wants to further cut the taxes of that wealthiest 1% while vast numbers of the bottom 95% live paycheck-to-paycheck and owe enormous credit card debts. MJ Th

U.S. income & wealth inequality

2001-02-15 Thread Yann Le Du
Interesting data from another forum, Yann Yann Le Du E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Theoretical Physics Web : http://cdfinfo.in2p3.fr/~ledu/ 1, Keble Road University of Oxford Oxford,

Re: Currency crises

2001-02-15 Thread markjohn®
do you know his email? =) At 01:54 PM 2/14/01 -0800, you wrote: >Maybe you should ask George Soros! ;) > >Alex Robson >UC Irvine > >On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, [iso-8859-1] markjohn® wrote: > > > is fixing exchange rates a good policy during currency crises? > >