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Scale Economies Can Offset the Benefits of Competition : Evidence from a School Consolidation Reform in a Universal Voucher System
de Haan, Monique - 2011
context scale economies dominated the effects of choice and competition. This points to an often ignored trade-off between … scale and competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129092
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Add-On Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education
Kosfeld, Michael - 2011
pricing strategy of firms. Educating consumers may do more harm than good and should thus only be considered if the regulator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118774
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The Economics of Credence Goods : On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition
Dulleck, Uwe - 2009
has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764487
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Competition Reform and Household Welfare : A Microsimulation Analysis of the Telecommunication Sector in Ethiopia
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021
This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current … consumers are more likely to reap the benefits of greater competition. This method represents a powerful tool for supporting the … analysis of competition reforms in developing countries, particularly in sectors known for excluding significant segments of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250766
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Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight : Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism
Dragone, Davide - 2015
This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023791
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Behavioral Responses to Taxation : Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamp Take-Up
Rozema, Kyle - 2015
This paper investigates a previously unexplored behavioral response to taxation: whether smokers compensate for higher cigarette taxes by enrolling in food stamps. First, we show theoretically that increases in cigarette taxes can induce food stamp take-up of non-enrolled, eligible smoking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025318
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Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance
Gibbs, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, whichprovides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use thelessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance inpractice....
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Optimizing Incentive Plan Design : A Case Study
Levenson, Alec R. - 2011
We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120140
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Quality and Price Setting of High-Tech Goods
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, Oleksandr; Vu, Nam - 2021
This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250249
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Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity : Evidence from Micro Data
Haskel, Jonathan - 2012
We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754887