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Hierarchical house price model incorporating geographical and macroeconomic factors
Lyu, Lingfeng - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461442
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The role of landscape amenities in regional development : a survey of migration, regional economic and hedonic pricing studies
Waltert, Fabian; Schläpfer, Felix - 2007
Quality of life factors continue to gain importance in residential location decisions as well as location decisions of firms. One such factor is an attractive local landscape. The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the empirical literature on the role of landscape amenities in local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892447
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Age and choice in health insurance : evidence from Switzerland
Becker, Karolin (contributor); Zweifel, Peter (contributor) - 2007 - Revised version
Elements of regulation inherent in most social health insurance systems are a uniform package of benefits and uniform cost sharing. Both elements risk to burden the population with a welfare loss if preferences differ. This suggests introducing more contracted choice; however, it is widely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002202974
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Cost sharing in health insurance : an instrument for risk selection?
Becker, Karolin (contributor); Zweifel, Peter (contributor) - 2005
. In a discrete choice experiment, effected in 2003, some 1,000 individuals were given the hypothetical choice of … also varies with socioeconomic characteristics and increases with the current level of deductible, as predicted by theory … and constituting evidence in favor of the risk selection hypothesis. The experiment allows to compute necessary premium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003216009
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Optimal sin taxation and market power
O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2021
This paper studies the design of sin taxes when firms exercise market power. We outline an optimal tax framework that highlights how market power impacts the efficiency and redistributive properties of sin taxation, and quantify these effects in an application to sugar-sweetened beverage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623743
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Competitive politics, simplified heuristics, and preferences for public goods
Schläpfer, Felix; Schmitt, Marcel; Roschewitz, Annette - 2007
-survey experiment to investigate how knowledge of party positions affects policy choices. We followed standard procedures in developing … an attribute-based choice experiment on alternative land-use policies in Switzerland. In contrast to the usual … ; choice experiment ; contingent valuation ; landscape ; heuristics ; information ; preference formation ; public goods …
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Depreciation in the Swedish automobile market : an integration of hedonic and latent variable approaches
Amel, Dean F.; Berndt, Ernst R. - 1986
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Time-geographically weighted regressions and residential property value assessment
Cohen, Jeffrey P.; Coughlin, Cletus Charles; Zabel, … - 2019
In this study, we develop and apply a new methodology for obtaining accurate and equitable property value assessments. This methodology adds a time dimension to the Geographically Weighted Regressions (GWR) framework, which we call Time-Geographically Weighted Regressions (TGWR). That is, when...
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Nonlinear hedonics and the search for school district quality
Chiodo, Abbigail J. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev
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A cost-benefit analysis of a public labelling scheme of fish quality
Nielsen, Max (contributor); Nielsen, Frank (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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