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Do Firms Use Coupons and In-Store Discounts to Strategically Market Experience Goods Over the Consumption Life-Cycle? The Case of Cigarettes
Sfekas, Andrew - 2014
, they are informed about the good and may experiment with different brands. In the third phase, they may become loyal to one …, and coupon offers of 15 brands from 1995 to 2007 and individual-level data on brand choices from 1995 to 2004 to explore …-selling brands primarily discount as price discrimination and pay-to-stay strategies, while smaller, specialty brands discount to …
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Movies, Margins and Marketing : Encouraging the Adoption of Iron-Fortified Salt
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2015
A set of randomized experiments shed light on how markets and information influence household decisions to adopt nutritional innovations. Of 400 Indian villages, we randomly assigned half to an intervention where all shopkeepers were offered the option to sell a new salt, fortified with both...
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Keeping the Doctor Away : Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative Health Products
Meredith, Jennifer - 2013
curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala, India, and Uganda and test whether (1) information about health risk, (2 …
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Financial Literacy and High-Cost Borrowing in the United States
Lusardi, Annamaria - 2013
In this paper, we examine high-cost methods of borrowing in the United States, such as payday loans, pawn shops, auto title loans, refund anticipation loans, and rent-to-own shops, and offer a portrait of borrowers who use these methods. Considering a representative sample of more than 26,000...
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Public or Private Production of Food Safety : What Do U.S. Consumers Want?
Smith, V. Kerry - 2010
This paper reports estimates of consumers' preferences for plans to improve food safety. The plans are distinguished based on whether they address the ex ante risk of food borne illness or the ex post effects of the illness. They are also distinguished based on whether they focus on a public...
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Scarring Body and Mind : The Long-Term Belief-Scarring Effects of Covid-19
Kozlowski, Julian - 2020
The largest economic cost of the COVID-19 pandemic could arise from changes in behavior long after the immediate health crisis is resolved. A potential source of such a long-lived change is scarring of beliefs, a persistent change in the perceived probability of an extreme, negative shock in the...
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Inflation with Covid Consumption Baskets
Cavallo, Alberto - 2020
The Covid-19 Pandemic has led to changes in consumer expenditure patterns that can introduce significant bias in the measurement of inflation. I use data collected from credit and debit transactions in the US to update the official basket weights and estimate the impact on the Consumer Price...
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U.S. V. Microsoft : Did Consumers Win?
Evans, David A.; Evans, David S.; Nichols, Albert L.; … - 2022
U.S. v. Microsoft and the related state suit filed in 1998 appear finally to have concluded. In a unanimous en banc decision issued in late June 2004, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges to the remedies approved by the District Court in November 2002. The wave of follow-on...
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Consumer Behavior and Immigrant Assimilation : a Comparison of the United States, Britain and Germany, 1889/1890
Haines, Michael R. - 2022
This paper utilizes household-level budget data from the 1889/90 United States Commissioner of Labor survey to estimate the full Almost Ideal Demand System with demographic and other covariates. Price data were obtained from the Aldrich Report of 1892. The purpose is to make better use of the...
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Measuring Changes in the Bilateral Technology Gaps between China, India and the U.S. 1979 - 2008
Shen, Keting - 2015
's technology gaps both with the U.S. and India between 1979 and 2008, comparing the technology level of these economies using a CES … India and the U.S. for the period before 2008. The pairwise gaps between the U.S. and China, and the U.S. and India remain … productivity than India over the period, the bilateral technology gap between China and India is still in India's favor. India had …
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