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Charging infrastructure is critical to electric vehicle (EV) adoption, but for chargers to be most useful, EV drivers need to know in real time where they are and whether they are working and available. We investigate the availability of real-time data from DC fast chargers on six major US...
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: consumer surplus from a hospital demand system and the fraction of population hospital admissions that would be covered by the …
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Willingness to pay for air quality is a function of health and the costly defensive investments that contribute to health, but there is little research assessing the empirical importance of defensive investments. The setting for this paper is a large US emissions cap and trade market - the NOx...
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data, I then show that this type of demand heterogeneity is empirically relevant in a consumer health plan setting. Younger … and older consumers and men and women reveal strikingly different demand for health insurance, conditional on their …
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This paper explores methods for inferring the causal effects of treatments on choices by combining data on real choices with hypothetical evaluations. We propose a class of estimators, identify conditions under which they yield consistent estimates, and derive their asymptotic distributions. The...
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We show how to construct a ranking of U.S. undergraduate programs based on students' revealed preferences. We construct examples of national and regional rankings, using hand-collected data on 3,240 high- achieving students. Our statistical model extends models used for ranking players in...
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Secured lenders have recently demanded a new condition in distressed debt restructurings: competing secured lenders must lose priority. We model the implications of this "creditor-on-creditor violence" trend. In our dynamic model, secured lenders enjoy higher priority in default. However,...
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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 …
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competitors. We formulate a model of newspaper demand, entry, and political affiliation choice in which newspapers compete for …
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This paper examines how estimates of the price elasticity of demand for beer vary with the choice of alcohol price … alcohol demand elasticities--estimates obtained from this source vary drastically and unpredictably. As an alternative … grocery store alcohol prices. These estimates suggest relatively low demand elasticity, probably around -0.3, with evidence …
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