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Why consumers pay voluntarily: Evidence from online music

Regner, Tobias - 2010

). We ran an online survey and collected responses from 227 frequent Magnatune customers to gain insights about the …

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A fair share: Burden-sharing preferences in the United States and China

Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; … - 2010

Using a choice experiment, we investigated preferences for distributing the economic burden of decreasing CO2 emissions in the two largest CO2-emitting countries: the United States and China. We asked respondents about their preferences for four burden-sharing rules to reduce CO2 emissions...

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Inventor networks in emerging key technologies: Information technology vs. semiconductors

Graf, Holger - 2009

We analyze the development of the German knowledge base measured by co-classifications of patents by German inventors and relate this technological development to changes in the structure of the underlying inventor networks. Our central hypothesis states that technologies which become more...

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International service transactions: Is time a trade barrier in a connected world?

Dettmer, Bianka - 2010

The firms' international fragmentation of production has recently widened its focus from outsourcing of intermediates to off-shoring of business services such as software program development and international call centre networks. Although a large number of business services are intangible and...

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What economists know about open source software its basic principles and research results

von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2011

For a decade, economists have been fascinated by the phenomenon of open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. It is developed in a public, collaborative manner by thousands of non-paid volunteers as well as profit seeking firms. Today, OSS is...

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Do consumers pay voluntarily?: the case of online music

Regner, Tobias; Barria, Javier A. - 2007

The paper analyses the payment behaviour of customers of the online music label Magnatune. Customers may pay what they want for albums, as long as the payment is within a given price range ($5-$18). Magnatune's comprehensive pre-purchase access facilitates music discovery and allows an informed...

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The impact of market size and users' sophistication on innovation: the patterns of demand and the technology life cycle

Guerzoni, Marco - 2007

The aim of this paper is an investigation on the role of demand in industrial dynamics. Despite the decades-long debate on demand and innovation, theory still lacks a comprehensive analytical formulation. This paper proposes a model where demand is conceived as a peculiar blend of two...

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Uniqueness seeking and demand estimation in the German automobile industry

Guerzoni, Marco; Soellner, René - 2009

This paper empirically analyzes the determinants of demand in the German automobile industry. Our primary goal is to refine the existing literature on that topic by exploring the impact of uniqueness seeking behaviour of individuals on the demand schedule. Using a dataset on the segment of...

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Spurious complexity and common standards in markets for consumer goods

Gaudeul, Alexia; Sugden, Robert - 2009

It has been argued that cognitively constrained consumers respond sub-optimally to complex decision problems, and that firms can exploit these limitations by introducing spurious complexity into tariff structures, weakening price competition. We model a countervailing force. Restricting one's...

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Consumer support for environmental policies: an application to purchases of green cars

Coad, Alex; de Haan, Peter; Woersdorfer, Julia Sophie - 2008

This paper focuses on how consumer motivation can be tapped in order to encourage the adoption of cleaner technologies … dynamic theory of adoption of environmental innovations, in which information-provision policies are followed by financial … incentives (first ‘carrot’, then ‘stick’ incentives). Analysis of a survey dataset of Swiss households observes considerable …

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