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This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health …
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price expectations. In an incentivised valuation task, participants are endowed with a mug and provide their willingness to … accept (WTA) to sell it. We manipulate the sale price in a separate, exogenous forced sale scenario, which is predicted to … produce a 'comparison effect', moving WTA in the opposite direction to the forced sale price. Consistent with the theory, we …
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for a 3D movie when the 3D surcharge is shrouded, but they also drop out more often when the overall price is shown at the … checkout. In sum, the demand distribution is independent of the price presentation. This result outlines the limits of the …
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the degree of price rigidity that is inherent to the price setting mechanism (intrinsic) and that which is due to the … price's driving variables (extrinsic). Using two data sets consisting of a large fraction of the price quotes used to … compute the Belgian and French CPI, we are able to assess the role of intrinsic and extrinsic price stickiness in explaining …
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different policy implications. We propose a Bayesian estimation and predictive framework to analyze the effects and relative …
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In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is universal, co-payments and deductibles are moderate, and premia are based on income. However, they may buy private insurance instead if their income exceeds the compulsory...
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This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...
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Conferences are an important element in the work of researchers, requiring substantial investments in fees, travel expenses and the time spent by the participants. The aim of this paper is to identify the preferences of participants with respect to conference characteristics. Based on a sample...
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In the tradition of Afriat (1967), Diewert (1973) and Varian (1982), we provide a revealed preference characterisation of the representative consumer. Our results are simple and complement those of Gorman (1953, 1961), Samuelson (1956) and others. They can also be applied to data very readily...
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