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Analyzing the Welfare Impacts of Full-line Forcing Contracts
Ho, Justin - 2010
Theoretical investigations have examined both anti-competitive and efficiency-inducing rationales for vertical bundling, making empirical evidence important to understanding its welfare implications. We use an extensive dataset on full-line forcing contracts between movie distributors and video...
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Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?
Dahl, Gordon - 2008
Laboratory experiments in psychology find that media violence increases aggression in the short run. We analyze whether media violence affects violent crime in the field. We exploit variation in the violence of blockbuster movies from 1995 to 2004, and study the effect on same-day assaults. We...
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Product Differentiation and Film Programming Choice : Do First-Run Movie Theatres Show the Same Films?
Chisholm, Darlene C. - 2006
We present an empirical analysis of product differentiation using a new dynamic panel data set on film programming choice in a major U.S. metropolitan motion-pictures exhibition market. Using these data, we compute two measures of film programming choice which allow us to investigate the...
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Competitive Price Targeting with Smartphone Coupons
Dubé, Jean-Pierre H. - 2016
demand model that can be used to predict the consumer choices and corresponding firm best-responses at price levels not …
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Short-run subsidies and long-run adoption of new health products : evidence from a field experiment
Dupas, Pascaline - 2010
"Short-run subsidies for health products are common in poor countries. How do they affect long-run adoption? We present a model of technology adoption in which people learn about a technology's effectiveness by using it (or observing others using it) for some time, but people quit using it too...
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Decomposing the great trade collapse : products, prices, and quantities in the 2008-2009 crisis
Haddad, Mona - 2011
importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade. In particular, we decompose the fall in …
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The Demand for Medical Care in Urban China
Mocan, H. Naci - 2000
This is the first paper to investigate the determinants of the demand for medical care in the People's Republic of … characteristics and work conditions impact the demand for medical care. Income elasticity is around 0.3, indicating medical care is a … necessity. Medical care demand is price inelastic, and price elasticity is larger in absolute value for poorer households …
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The Importance of Group Coverage : How Tax Policy Shaped U.S. Health Insurance
Thomasson, Melissa A. - 2000
market. This paper examines the initial effects of the tax subsidy on the demand for health insurance using previously …
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The Impact of State Taxes on Self-Insurance
Ke, Bin - 1999
approximately $140 million or 7.5 percent of current coverage. As expected, tax effects vary with the elasticity of demand. When … demand is largely inelastic, e.g., automobile liability coverage, taxes do not affect self-insurance …
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Determinants of Smoking Cessation : An Analysis of Young Adult Men and Women
Tauras, John A. - 1999
Substantial econometric efforts have been devoted to examining the impacts prices and tobacco control policies have on smoking propensity and intensity. However, little is known about the effects prices, smoking restrictions, and other influences have on smoking cessation. This paper uses...
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