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The amenity cost of road noise
von Graevenitz, Kathrine - 2016
This article reports a complete two stage hedonic analysis for road noise. For the estimation of the hedonic price … measurement error in the noise measure. The preference parameters are identified following the approach developed in Bajari and … Benkard (2005) by using a simple functional form for utility. Preferences are very heterogeneous and observable demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575159
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The Kyoto Protocol: A Review and Perspectives
Böhringer, Christoph - 2003
International concern about climate change has led to the Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997, which contains legally binding emission targets for industrialized countries to be achieved during the commitment period 2008-2012. While proponents of the Protocol celebrate it as a breakthrough in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297311
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The Kyoto Protocol: A Review and Perspectives
Böhringer, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
International concern about climate change has led to the Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997, which contains legally binding emission targets for industrialized countries to be achieved during the commitment period 2008-2012. While proponents of the Protocol celebrate it as a breakthrough in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098169
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Spreading the disease: Protest in times of pandemics
Lange, Martin; Monscheuer, Ole - 2021
This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 deniers on the spread of COVID-19 in Germany. In a first step, we establish a link between regional proxies of COVID-19 deniers and infection rates. We then estimate the causal impact of large anti-lockdown protests on the spread of COVID-19 using an...
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Fostering participation in digital public health interventions: The case of digital contact tracing
Rehse, Dominik; Tremöhlen, Felix - 2020
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has made all the more clear that public health is a public good. Public health interventions try to encourage contributions to this public good. Digital public health interventions are increasingly being used to complement traditional public health interventions. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387004
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How do low-income enrollees in the affordable care act marketplaces respond to cost sharing?
Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023
The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to offer cost sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the actuarial value of CSR...
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Preferred field of study and academic performance
Berlingieri, Francesco; Diegmann, André; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of studying the first-choice university subject on dropout and switching field of study for a cohort of students in Germany. Using detailed survey data, and employing an instrumental variable strategy based on variation in the local field of study availability,...
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Eating habits, food consumption, and health: The role of early life experiences
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Olivieri, Elisabetta; Triviza, … - 2023
This study explores the long-run effects of a temporary scarcity of a consumption good on preferences towards that good …
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Preferences and decision support in competitive bidding
Fugger, Nicolas; Gillen, Philippe; Rasch, Alexander; … - 2017
standard preferences. We investigate whether the empirical breakdown of this equivalence is due to (non-standard) preferences … needed to derive the optimal bidding strategy). We first elicit measures of individual preferences and then manipulate the … differing complexity between the two formats rather than non-standard preferences. …
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Procurement design with loss averse bidders
Fugger, Nicolas; Gillen, Philippe; Riehm, Tobias - 2019
We show that it is beneficial for a buyer to conduct a multi-stage mechanism if bidders are loss averse. In a first step, we derive a revenue equivalence principle. Fixing the multi-stage structure, the revenue is independent of the chosen payment rule. Secondly, we introduce a simple two-stage...
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