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Preference Heterogeneity and Habit Persistence: The Case of Breakfast Cereal Consumption

Thunström, Linda - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2008

This paper estimates the strength and heterogeneity across households in state dependence associated with breakfast cereal consumption, where positive state dependence implies habit persistence and negative state dependence implies variety-seeking in consumption. The analysis relies on a...

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Retailer Choice and Loyalty Schemes - Evidence from Sweden

Lundberg, Johan; Lundberg, Sofia - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2010

From economic theory, it is known that consumer loyalty schemes can have lock-in effects resulting in entry barriers and higher prices. This paper concerns consumer loyalty schemes where the main issue is to test the hypothesis that loyalty scheme membership affects the choice of food retailer....

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Retailer Choice and Loyalty Schemes - Evidence from Sweden

Lundberg, Johan; Lundberg, Sofia - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2010

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Occurrence of long and short term asymmetry in stock market volatilities

Lönnbark, Carl - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2012

We introduce the notions of short and long term asymmetric effects in volatilities. With short term asymmetry we mean the conventional one, i.e. the asymmetric response of current volatility to the most recent return shocks. However, there may be asymmetries in the way the effect of past return...

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Tax or no tax? Preferences for climate policy attributes

Brännlund, Runar; Persson, Lars - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2010

public preferences for these instruments. In this paper, an Internet-based choice experiment is conducted where respondents … the attributes, respondents indirectly reveal their preferences for these attributes. Half of the respondents are faced …

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Climate Policy Measures: What do people prefer ?

Cole, Scott; Brännlund, Runar - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009

, very little research exists related to public preferences for alternative measures. This paper describes the results of a … pilot study to determine whether a choice experiment might be a feasible approach for measuring preferences for carbon … that respondents’ preferences for the cost-sharing burden (equity) of measures might be defined in terms of an individual …

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Opportunities, Preferences and Incomes

Nilsson, William - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2005

The distinction between circumstances that constrain an individual’s opportunities and the individual choices also affecting a particular outcome is the main idea of theories of equality of opportunity. In this study, equality of opportunity is analyzed for Swedish data using a large set of...

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Wind Farms – Where and how to put them?

Kristina, Ek; Persson, Lars - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2012

This paper aims at measuring preferences for attributes related to the establishment of wind power farms among the …

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