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The influence of an up-front experiment on respondents’ recording behaviour in payment diaries : evidence from Germany

Sieber, Susann; Schmidt, Tobias - 2015

-of-sales expenditures. We are particularly interested in the effect of a behavioural experiment, eliciting respondents’ risk preferences, on …

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Economic development, novelty consumption, and body weight : evidence from the East German transition to capitalism

Dragone, Davide; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015

This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how...

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Heterogeneity in price responsiveness for residential space heating in Germany

Schmitz, Hendrik; Madlener, Reinhard - 2016 - This version: November 2016

Space heating and hot water expenditures make up the majority of household energy demand in Germany, at 83.2%, making … covering the years 1996 to 2014, we identify the determinants of heating expenditures for German households. We discover … significant heterogeneity in expenditures depending on socioeconomic variables. For the full sample, we find a price elasticity of …

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Estimating a consumer demand system of energy, mobility and leisure : a microdata approach for Germany

Beznoska, Martin - 2014

This paper investigates empirically the consumer demand of environmentally relevant goods for Germany, as well as their relationship to the demand for leisure. Higher prices for energy goods like gas, electricity or fuel oil due to higher indirect taxation amongst others may have serious welfare...

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How health plan enrollees value prices relative to supplemental benefits and service quality

Bünnings, Christian; Schmitz, Hendrik; Tauchmann, Harald; … - 2015

This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary...

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Pay cash, buy less trash? : evidence from German payment diary data

Eschelbach, Martina - 2017

This research note empirically investigates whether cash can prevent consumers from making needless purchases in unexpected shopping situations. Cash can have a disciplinary effect on short-term consumption because it imposes a strong temporary budget constraint and also reinforces the pain of...

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The distribution of material footprints in Germany

Pothen, Frank; Tovar Reaños, Miguel Angel - 2018

that households consume. Combining input-output data with households' consumption expenditures from the German sample … quartile with the highest consumption expenditures have material footprints three times as large as those in the quartile with … the lowest expenditures. Results of a microeconomic model of household's consumption behaviour estimated on the EVS data …

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Equity and the willingness to pay for green electricity in Germany

Andor, Mark Andreas; Frondel, Manuel; Sommer, Stephan - 2018

The production of electricity on the basis of renewable energy technologies is a classic example of an impure public good. It is often discriminatively financed by industrial and household consumers, such as in Germany, where the energy-intensive sector benefits from a far-reaching exemption...

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Estimating a consumer demand system of energy, mobility and leisure : a microdata approach for Germany

Beznoska, Martin - 2014

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Acceptance of mobile loyalty cards in the German B2C consumer goods market

Schneider, Sandra - In: International journal of management and economics 57 (2021) 1, pp. 85-102

The consumer goods market is characterized by strong competition. Thus, to bind customers to the company, a higher priority needs to be attributed to customer retention measures. Such measures include the loyalty card, but the use of the physical card is declining. To counteract this decline,...

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