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The Evolution of Brand Preferences : Evidence from Consumer Migration

Bronnenberg, Bart J. - 2010

We study the long-run evolution of brand preferences, using new data on consumers' life histories and purchases of … advertising. Heterogeneity in brand preferences explains 40 percent of geographic variation in market shares. These preferences … years in the past still exerting a significant effect on current consumption. Counterfactuals suggest that brand preferences …

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Brand Loyalty, Generic Entry and Price Competition in Pharmaceuticals in the Quarter Century After the 1984 Waxman-Hatch Legislation

Berndt, Ernst R. - 2010

. Recent studies sponsored by the American Association of Retired Persons focus only on brand prices and ignore substitution to …

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Information Spillovers in Experience Goods Competition

Chen, Zhuoqiong; Stanton, Christopher T.; Thomas, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

When experience goods compete, consuming one product can be informative about value for similar untried products. We study a two-period model of duopoly competition in markets that have this feature and where firms can price discriminate between consumers based on purchasing history. Price...

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The Persistence of Moral Suasion and Economic Incentives : Field Experimental Evidence from Energy Demand

Ito, Koichiro - 2015

Firms and governments often use moral suasion and economic incentives to influence intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for various economic activities. To investigate the persistence of such interventions, we randomly assigned households to moral suasion and dynamic pricing that stimulate energy...

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Belt and Suspenders and More : The Incremental Impact of Energy Efficiency Subsidies in the Presence of Existing Policy Instruments

Houde, Sébastien - 2014

The effectiveness of investment subsidies depends on the existing array of regulatory and information mandates, especially in the energy efficiency space. Some consumers respond to information disclosure by purchasing energy-efficient durables (and thus may increase the inframarginal take-up of...

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Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts : A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants

Ambler, Kate - 2014

We study the impacts on remittances of offering migrants temporary discounts on remittance transaction fees. We randomly assigned migrants from El Salvador and Guatemala 10-week remittance transaction fee discounts, and assess impacts using administrative transaction data and a post-experiment...

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Conservation Policies : Who Responds to Price and Who Responds to Prescription?

Wichman, Casey J. - 2014

The efficiency properties of price and non-price instruments for conservation in environmental policy are well understood. Yet, there is little evidence comparing the effectiveness of these instruments, especially when considering water resource management. We exploit a rich panel of residential...

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Do Required Minimum Distributions Matter? The Effect of the 2009 Holiday On Retirement Plan Distributions

Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2014

This paper investigates how the 2009 one-time suspension of the Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) rules associated with qualified retirement plans affected plan distributions at TIAA-CREF, a large retirement services provider. Using panel data on retirement plan participants at TIAA-CREF, we...

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Controlling Health Care Costs Through Limited Network Insurance Plans : Evidence from Massachusetts State Employees

Gruber, Jonathan - 2014

Recent years have seen enormous growth in limited network plans that restrict patient choice of provider, particularly through state exchanges under the ACA. Opposition to such plans is based on concerns that restrictions on provider choice will harm patient care. We explore this issue in the...

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Free to Choose : Promoting Conservation by Relaxing Outdoor Watering Restrictions

Castledine, Anita - 2014

Many water utilities use outdoor watering restrictions based on assigned weekly watering days to promote conservation and delay costly capacity expansions. We find that such policies can lead to unintended consequences - customers who adhere to the prescribed schedule use more water than those...

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