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Collective Choice and Control Rights in Firms

Dow, Gregory K.; Skillman, Gilbert L. - EconWPA - 2005

Recent writers have asserted that firms controlled by workers are rare because workers have diverse preferences over firm policies, and thus suffer from high transaction costs in making collective decisions. This is contrasted with firms controlled by investors, who all support the goal of...

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El Geomarketing y la distribución comercial

Chasco-Yrigoyen, Coro - EconWPA - 2004

Geomarketing is a powerfull recently developed scientific methodology which allows decision makers to visualise marketing strategies and discover those areas that are most likely to produce results. Marketing and geography leads to a whole system and provides adequate tools to analyse the...

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The Endowment Effect in a Public Good Experiment

Lopez, Edward J.; Nelson, W. Robert - EconWPA - 2005

Previous tests of the endowment effect have usually observed WTA-WTP disparities. Here, a public good experiment is employed. Both account framing and duration framing treatments are introduced to alter subjects’ perceived control over an initial endowment. Results do not indicate that...

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The Impacts of Taste, Location of Origin, and Health Information on Market Demand for Sweet Potatoes

Nalley, Lanier; Hudson, Darren; Parkhurst, Greg - EconWPA - 2004

Location of product origin is an often-used marketing device by retailers. This approach is based on the assumption that location of origin signals something to consumers about the underlying quality (or other attributes) of the product. This can be an effective strategy if the signal matches...

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Semiparametric Estimation of Willingness to Pay Distributions

An, Mark Yuying - EconWPA - 1996

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Dying in an Avalanche: Current risks and Valuation

Leiter, Andrea M.; Pruckner, Gerald J. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the influence of implicit information associated with the occurrence of avalanches on willingness to pay (WTP) values for a risk prevention of dying in an avalanche. We present results of a contingent valuation (CV) study carried out in Austria in two different periods (fall...

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Unit income elasticity of the value of travel time savings

Fosgerau, Mogens - EconWPA - 2005

The paper presents an analysis of the income elasticity of the value of travel time savings (VTTS). It expands on previous micro-econometric estimates of the VTTS on binary choice experimental data by accounting for income taxes, for the dependence of trip length on income and for the stochastic...

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PROPERTY CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WTP AND WTA

Shastri, Rahul - EconWPA - 2005

It is well known in Environmental Economics that payment offered on the Willingness to Pay (WTP) principle is much … environment and is communally enjoyed, whereas compensation under WTA goes into one’s bank account. Public goods/benefits are … indifference between public and private forms of enjoyment of environmental benefits. It is interesting to note that this ratio is …

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Curbside Recycling: Waste Resource or Waste of Resources?

Aadland, David; Caplan, Arthur J. - EconWPA - 2003

studies by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Institute for Local Self Reliance, as well as from in …

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Metodología estadística para estudios de Disponibilidad a Pagar (DAP) aplicada a un proyecto de Abastecimiento de Agua

romero, adela parra; franco, viviana vargas; palma, … - EconWPA - 2005

Los estudios de DAP han sido implementados en el sector de Agua potable y saneamiento (AAS), como una herramienta que ayuda a determinar con mayor acierto la viabilidad financiera ex-ante de proyectos de abastecimiento de agua y saneamiento básico, y en un sentido más amplio promover un mejor...

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