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Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions. What can we Learn from Experiments?
Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2010
Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes. Nevertheless, it is still an open question what people’s preferences are regarding this form of redistribution. This paper reviews experimental evidence on preferences regarding redistribution and asks what this evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498990
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Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens' Preferences for Redistribution
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - CESifo - 2010
elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511616
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Measuring the Consumption Value of Higher Education
Alstadsæter, Annette - CESifo - 2009
This paper argues that the consumption value of education is an important motivation for the educational choice. While controlling for ability, we document that individuals are willing to forego substantial future wage returns in order to acquire a particular type of higher education. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533984
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The Consumption Value of Higher Education
Alstadsæter, Annette; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - CESifo - 2009
The consumption value of higher education is an important factor behind the individual’s educational choice. We provide a comprehensive literature survey, and define the consumption value as the private, intended, non-pecuniary return to higher education. We provide new empirical evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534058
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Public-Good Valuation and Intrafamily Allocation
Strand, Jon - CESifo - 2004
I derive values of marginal changes in a public good for two-person households, measured alternatively by household member i’s willingness to pay (WTP) for the good on behalf of the household, WTPi(H), or by the sum of individual WTP values across family members, WTP(C). Households are assumed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181474
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The Dead-anyway Effect Revis(it)ed
Breyer, Friedrich; Felder, Stefan - CESifo - 2002
claims, i.e. annuities and life insurance. This paper reexamines the “dead-anyway” effect and establishes two main results … but when insurance markets are perfect, this occurs for a different reason than given by Pratt and Zeckhauser. Secondly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405707
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What You Ask is What You Get: Willingness-to-Pay for a QALY in Germany
Ahlert, Marlies; Breyer, Friedrich; Schwettmann, Lars - CESifo - 2013
We report results of a survey of a representative sample of the German population in which respondents were asked in various scenarios for their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a gain of one quality-adjusted life year. While one version of the survey exactly copied the setting (online survey) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659184
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Do Network Externalities Really Matter In Consumer Behavior ? Experimental Framework For Measuring Willingness To Pay For Network Size
Cadario, Romain; Le Nagard, Emmanuelle; Desmet, Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Consequences of network externalities, such as product growth and innovation diffusion, are widely studied in marketing literature. However, there is little empirical research that examines the existence of such network externalities in consumer behavior. When and how do consumers take into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011072347
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UK Natural Gas: Gas-Specific or Oil Driven Pricing?
Asche, Frank; Oglend, Atle; Osmundsen, Petter - CESifo - 2013
the time of the year. Most of the reversion back to oil occurs in spring and summer when demand for gas to heating and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721610
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Impact of Underlying Demand and Agglomeration of Supply on Seasonality: the Case of the Hollywood Film Industry
Cartier, Manuel; Liarte, Sébastien - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
The authors argue that it is possible to break the demand for films into two types: the underlying demand accounted for … by audiences’ behaviours owing to events outside the film industry (vacations, climate, etc.); and demand due to the … studios exploit peaks in demand. Such agglomeration increases seasonality and could lead studios to overestimate the true …
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