Research


07.07.2020
The assessment of poverty in Belarus for 2019
This paper estimates poverty in Belarus based on the cost of basic needs approach and using annual data of the Sample Household Survey on Living Standards from 2019.
|Yaw Nyarko|Heitor Pelligrina| 30.06.2020
Traders in the Food Distribution Chain: Estimating Trade Costs and Markups from Price Data
The paper proposes a new method, which allows us to estimate trade costs and markups separately using only price data. The method explores the idea that the markups along the distribution chain of a good are shaped by the same final demand, and, therefore, respond similarly to a reduction in the price of a good at the initial point of the chain.