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The end of tourist traps : a natural experiment on the impact of tripadvisor on quality upgrading
Donati, Dante - 2022
Asymmetric information can distort market outcomes. I study how the online disclosure of information affects consumers' behavior and firms' incentives to upgrade product quality in markets where information is traditionally limited. I first build a model of consumer search with firms' endogenous...
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Does cost sharing really reduce inappropriate prescriptions?
Costa-Font, Joan; Gemmill-Toyama, Marin - 2010
This paper explores different empirical strategies to examine the effect of cost sharing for prescription drugs in some dimensions of medication-related quality, namely the probability of inappropriate prescription drug use among United States seniors. Using data from 1996 to 2005, we explore...
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Managing trade : evidence from China and the US
Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018
improving production efficiency and product quality in both countries, but it matters more in China than in the US, especially …
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Induced civic pride and integration
Süßmuth, Bernd; Heyne, Malte; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2009
This paper investigates whether a nation's contingent value of hosting a mega-event depends on past experience with implied public goods benefits for its residents. Applying data from an ex-ante and ex-post query based on contingent valuation methods, we use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural...
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Service quality in electricity distribution in Brazil : a Malmquist approach
Marinho, Alexandre; Resende, Marcelo - 2016
The paper undertakes a dynamic analysis for service quality in the electricity distribution in Brazil between 2010 and 2014 based on Malmquist indexes constructed upon Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) distance functions. The motivation for the less usual consideration of efficiency frontiers for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586315
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Does the housing market react to new information on school quality?
Fiva, Jon H. (contributor); Kirkebøen, Lars J. (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003711851
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Term length and the quality of appointments
Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2000
Consider a principal who appoints an agent. Let the agent potentially serve for a sufficiently long time that one principal is replaced by another over this period. Suppose also that the quality of the agent appointed increases with the effort the incumbent principal devotes to hiring. Then the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786719
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Health inequality and health insurance coverage : the United States and China compared
Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A.; Shi, Xuezhu - 2023
We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large … social determinants of health. Using comparable health survey data from China and the United States, we compare health … that whether SAH inequality is greater in the US or in China depends on the concept of status and the inequality …
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Controlling product risks when consumers are heterogeneously overconfident : producer liability vs. minimum quality standard regulation
Baniak, Andrzejj; Grajzl, Peter - 2014
Contributing to the literature on the consequences of behavioral biases for market outcomes and institutional design, we contrast producer liability and minimum quality standard regulation as alternative means of social control of product-related torts when consumers are heterogeneously...
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Salience in retailing : vertical restraints on internet sales
Helfrich, Magdalena; Herweg, Fabian - 2017 - This version: August 14, 2017
We provide an explanation for a frequently observed vertical restraint in ecommerce, namely that brand manufacturers partially or completely prohibit that retailers distribute their high-quality products over the internet. Our analysis is based on the assumption that a consumer's purchasing...
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