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Price and Income Elasticities of Residential Water Demand: Why Empirical Estimates differ
Dalhuisen, Jasper M.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Groot, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in price and income elasticities of residential water demand … synthesize research results on price and income elasticities of residentialwater demand report in the literature. These … empirical estimates of the price and income elasticity ofresidential water demand vary to such considerable extents. The set of …
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The Influence of Environmental Concerns on Drivers’ Preferences for Electric Cars
Dimitropoulos, Alexandros - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
to d river’s household income. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255531
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National and International Income Dispersion and Aggregate Expenditures
Fillat, Carmen; Francois, Joseph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
We examine linkages between aggregate household income, distribution of that income, and aggregate cross …-country expenditure patterns. We are able to decompose income effects into international income dispersion effects (from variations in … average income) and national income dispersion (income distribution) effects. This yields insights for relevant aggregate …
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Risk Attitudes and Profits among Small Enterprises in Nigeria
Lammers, Judith; Willebrands, Daan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...
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Risk Aversion and the Subjective Time Discount Rate: A Joint Approach
Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Booij, Adam S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
coefficient of -.3. Furthermore we explain γ and ρ by income,age, gender, entrepreneurship and an obesity index. Very significant …
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Welfare Effects of Distortionary Company Car Taxation
Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
In Europe, company cars are offered by employers as fringe benefits to their employees at a lower price than employees pay in the car market, mainly due to favourable taxation of company cars. We analyse the welfare effects of favourable taxation of company cars for the Netherlands. The...
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Value of Time by Time of Day: A Stated-Preference Study
Tseng, Yin-yen; Verhoef, Erik - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
This paper proposes an alternative, dynamic framework for estimatingtime-varying values of travel time savings and values of schedule delay, in whichtime-preferences are represented as the time-varying excess willingness to pay(EWPT) to being in the one location, over being elsewhere. It is...
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Changing with the Tide: Semi-Parametric Estimation of Preference Dynamics
Dekker, Thijs; Koster, Paul; Brouwer, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>Land Economics</I> (2014). Volume 90(4), pages 717-745.<P> This paper contrasts the discovered preference hypothesis against the theory of coherent arbitrariness in a split-sample stated choice experiment on flood risk exposure in the Netherlands. A...</p></i>
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The Information Content of a Stated Choice Experiment
Rouwendal, Jan; Blaeij, Arianne de; Rietveld, Piet; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This paper presents a method to assess the distribution of values of time, and values of statistical life, over participants to a stated choice experiment, that does not require the researcher to make an a priori assumption on the type of distribution, as is required for example for mixed logit...
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A Dynamic Utility Maximization Model for Product Category Consumption
Oest, Rutger van; Franses, Philip Hans; Paap, Richard - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
It is conceivable that the "whether to buy" and "how much tobuy" decisions in the purchasing process of households areinfluenced by the inventory process. In this paper we thereforeput forward a model for consumption, where we rely on establishedeconomic theory. We incorporate this model in a...
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