I discuss economic approaches to the demand for harmfully addictive substances and estimate time-series demand …

This paper provides an empirical estimate of price' and risk' elasticities of demand for term life insurance for those …

estimates of the price elasticity of demand for health care, and suggest that high deductible health plans may be less effective …

Many new products presumed to be privately beneficial to the poor have a high price elasticity of demand and ultimately … model that includes the forces that are known to be determinants of insurance demand, provide reduced form confirmation of …

Estimating consumer surplus is challenging because it requires identification of the entire demand curve. We rely on … Uber's "surge" pricing algorithm and the richness of its individual level data to first estimate demand elasticities at … several points along the demand curve. We then use these elasticity estimates to estimate consumer surplus. Using almost 50 …

Daily city-level expenditures and prices are used to estimate the price responsiveness of gasoline demand in the U ….S. Using a frequency of purchase model that explicitly acknowledges the distinction between gasoline demand and gasoline … expenditures, we consistently find the price elasticity of demand to be an order of magnitude larger than estimates from recent …

pharmaceuticals, are deemed to be price inelastic with price elasticities of demand (PED) close to -0.20. However, most studies of PED … exploit natural experiments that change demand prices for multiple components of health care. Consequently, these experiments … usually do not produce estimates for the true own-price elasticities of demand but rather composite own-price elasticities …

price elasticities of demand using four alternative cigarette tax/price measures that compensate for the local tax … States. We estimate a price elasticity of total demand of -0.38 using the price measure most strongly compensating for the …

policy from commercial property coverage. In this paper, we determine whether companies differ in their demand for property … to obtain consistent estimates of premium elasticity of corporate demand for property and terrorism coverage. Our … findings suggest that both are rather price inelastic and that corporate demand for terrorism insurance is significantly more …