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The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between individuals' satisfaction with amenities and … infrastructure) and applying Probit regressions, our results show that satisfaction with amenities and environmental quality … more pronounced in urban areas, particularly in large cities. We also find that individuals' satisfaction with amenities …
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readers, if we consider newspapers), or by both. We show that the scope for raising revenues from consumer payment is …
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This paper models payment evasion as a source of profit by letting the firm choose the purchase price and the fine imposed on detected payment evaders. For a given price and fine, the consumers purchase, evade payment, or choose the outside option. We show that payment evasion leads to a form of...
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In our model, an agent produces an outcome by a costly effort and then distributes it among heterogeneous users. The agents̕ payoff is the weighted sum of the users ̕shares and the coefficient reflecting their heterogeneity. When the agent neglects users ̕heterogeneity the game leads to an...
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This paper assumes that groups of consumers in network markets can coordinate their choices when it is in their best interest to do so, and when coordination does not require communication. It is shown that multiple asymmetric networks can coexist in equilibrium if consumers have heterogeneous...
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traditional permit systems which neglect consumer preferences by solely distributing emission permits to producers/polluters. In … change in environmental policy would mark a return to the traditional principles of consumer sovereignty by involving …
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We analyze minute-by-minute, individual level data on viewership for Italian TV news broadcasts, matched with detailed data on content. We study viewer behavior, especially the decision of viewers to switch away from a news program as a function of the type of story being broadcast. Somewhat...
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Although many real bargaining situations involve more than two people, much of the theoretical and experimental research concentrates on the two player situation. We study the simplest possible extension: four people (two two-person groups) of different patience bargain with each other....
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, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners (GPs). We show that … there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients' post-assignment mortality, in the … driven by unobserved differences across doctors. Finally, we show that patients are unable to identify who the high …
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This paper estimates a theory-guided gravity equation of regional patient flows. In our model, a patient’s choice to … of both patients and physicians. Introducing this concept in a spatial economics model, we derive an augmented gravity …
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